Abstract: A credentialing method and apparatus for facility access. The apparatus can include a system that includes one or more BLE beacons located within proximity to a facility, where one or more of the beacons identifies a location or other information unique to its proximity to the facility. The apparatus can further include an eBadge used by a person seeking access to the facility. The eBadge can also in some embodiments be a BLE beacon. Interaction between the one or more BLE beacons, a credentialing provider's app operating on the person's mobile device, and the person's eBadge operate in the system to perform a method of controlled access to the facility. In some embodiments, administrators with access to the credentialing provider's app also can control, monitor, report, and observe details concerning such facility access.

Abstract: Embodiments of methods and systems for sales tracking using mobile devices are described. In an embodiment, a method may include an employee interface device registering a sign-in entry in an internet-based tracking database in response to an application of the employee interface device determining that a location module of the employee interface device is within a pre-defined range of one of multiple pre-defined locations of interest, and that the location module has remained within the pre-defined range of one of the multiple pre-defined locations of interest for a pre-defined time period. In an embodiment, the employee interface device may register a sign-out time of the sign-in entry in the internet-based tracking database in response to the application of the employee interface device determining that the location module has moved outside the pre-defined range, and that the location module has remained outside the pre-defined range for the pre-defined time period.