Third-party gateway API
The third-party gateway API lets you submit device sightings from external gateways and scanners that detect Blecon devices.
How it works
If you have your own BLE scanners or gateways, you can submit spotted events to Blecon via a REST API. You provide the device ID, signal strength, and gateway location. Blecon processes these events through the standard pipeline — rate limiting, positioning, and event delivery.
API endpoint
POST /v1/accounts/{account_id}/gateways/spotted-events
Each request includes: - Device ID — The Blecon device identifier. - Gateway ID — Your gateway's identifier. - RSSI — The Bluetooth signal strength measured by the gateway. - Location — The gateway's GPS coordinates (optional, used for positioning).
Requirements
- Devices must be pre-registered in Blecon.
- Enterprise tier account.
- The caller must know the device ID — this API does not extract IDs from raw BLE data. For raw BLE processing, see the Juniper Mist integration.