The Mr. Beacon Ambient IoT Podcast

In an interview recorded shortly before their announcement, Aruba’s General Manager of Meridian Apps, Özer Dondurmacıoglu, reveals a new Bluetooth beacon offering from HP-Enterprises’ Wireless LAN Division. Aruba is getting into RTLS and asset tracking with new Bluetooth tags that work with their Wi-Fi/BLE equipped access points and a new set of cloud services. Ozer explains the offering, what drove the decision to extend into this market segment, the use cases that Aruba will support and what they are hearing from the market. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#43 - As the Beacosystem evolves to address the challenge of fleet management and embrace Real Time Location Systems, beacon gateways are becoming an important building block. Rather than focus on beacons Fathom has launched a gateway product that is designed to work with beacons from third parties. They just announced a partnership with Gimbal. Al Juarez describes Fathom's first deployment and an evolution from fleet management to RTLS location sensing using Angle of Arrival technology. For more interviews and articles from the author of Beacon Technologies see https://www.statlerconsulting.com/mister-beacon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While the need for Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) to monitor assets in healthcare and manufacturing is spiking, the cost of the tags used in such system is still a break on adoption. Uwinloc, a French startup, the product of the Airbus incubator, has an answer, tags without batteries. Delivering sub-meter accuracy and dramatically reducing capital and maintenance costs this passive UWB technology promises to be profoundly disruptive. We talked to the CEO of Uwinloc, Eric Cariou, at IoT World in Santa Clara and he gave us a full rundown of what Uwinloc is doing. [Audio improves at 2:40] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ex Cisco CTO now CTO co-founder of Mist, Bob Friday, reveals what his company is doing to use virtual beacons to enhance the management of beacons and eliminate them in some cases. He also describes how their technology, which is OEMed by Cisco can be used in an Real TIme Location System to track assets rather than people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We get insights into the go-to-market strategy of Kontakt.io, one of the most successful pure play beacon vendors, from their field leadership, Philipp von Gilsa, VP of Market Operations and Filip Karwala, Head of Sales. They share their metrics, information about the projects they are taking live, their latest products and where the growth is. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We learn how beacons are being used on and off broadway by The Shubert Organization, the largest theater owner on Broadway. Kyle Wright runs the data analytics and R&D function for Shubert and describes the ways in which beacons can make the experience better for the 13 million ticket holders each year that make up Shubert’s customers. Time Square is one of the most checked in places on earth. Wright is working on how to unlock the value in that. In addition to helping people get to their seats on time, facilitating the link between theaters and restaurants, we hear how Shubert is managing the challenge of getting visitors to use their apps and the partnerships that are helping them to monetize their beacon network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Philip Hoyer, CTO of HID Global’s Trusted Mobile Ticketing division demonstrates a series of applications of electronic ticketing, Bluetooth and beacons at the Ticketing Technology Forum in Dublin. These enable new experiences and business opportunities at events, in the enterprise and for hotel guests using a combination of access control, mobile wallet technology and the offerings from BluVision, the beacon company HID recently acquired. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bluetooth Smart chips are at the heart of beacons. When beacons first hit the scene, Nordic Semiconductor grabbed the largest share of the market supplying their chips to beacon manufacturers. In a brief discussion with Alf Helge Omr, Business Development Manager at Nordic, we explain how much of a beacon’s function gets supplied by the chip vendors, where their role ends and how the Bluetooth module vendors add value to the chip. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talk with Beeem's CEO Ferenc Brachmann at the Bluetooth SIG World Event in Silicon Valley about the latest news on the Physical Web, major changes to Chrome and the work his company is doing with retail brands who are early adopters of Eddystone URL. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Personal Asset tracking was one of the first use cases for Bluetooth beacons, it’s driven millions of unit sales and continues to evolve, with crowd sourced asset spotting, new usecases and new hardware to add room level monitoring. We talk to Christian Smith, TrackR’s President and co-founder about the technologies and stories behind the founding of TrackR and use of the product. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.