The Mr. Beacon Ambient IoT Podcast

Angle of Arrival (AoA) offers genuine sub-meter accuracy. Quuppa has pioneered the commercialization of AoA using commodity Bluetooth components and have recently opened up operations in the USA. [RECORDED DEC 2016] We talk to their co-founder and Chief Customer Officer, Fabio Belloni, who explains how this technology is being deployed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cisco reveals that over half a million of their Meraki Wi-Fi routers in the field have built in Bluetooth hardware that enables them to act as iBeacons. Thanks to a recent cloud update, these can also be used as beacon gateways to monitor third party beacons. We talk to Colin Lowenberg who is responsible for managing the Cisco Meraki API product offering about what this means, the functionality available, how it’s being used by customers and how Cisco wants to work with other vendors in the beacon ecosystem. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Beacons can enable an enhanced ticketing experience by having mobile apps recognize fare gates and ticket collectors. We talk to Dimiter Dimitrov – CEO of Tickey about his experiences developing and deploying his company's beacon app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talk with Ferenc Brachmann – CEO of Beeem about their work creating tools to enable the publishing for the Physical Web and their experience with Eddystone URL beacons at the European Table Tennis Championships. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We learn how Visual Light Communication (VLC) can be combined with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and integrate with the Internet of Things (IoT) to enable new disruptive functionality. Greg Carter, Acuity Brands General Manager for IoT explains this and why the largest provider of lighting systems in the USA is so well positioned to drive adoption of these technologies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Unacast's CEO provides a jargon busting introduction to programmatic advertising and how beacons are creating opportunities for brands, retailers and proximity solution providers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bluetooth mesh offers advantages for management of beacon deployments, enabling new use cases and support for the Physical Web. We talk to the CEO of Beaconix whose early work enabling large scale location based campaigns convinced him to commercialize a mesh solution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cisco is disrupting the Beacosystem with its new CMX Beacon Point vBeacon product. Moving beacons with a point and a click promises to change the way we look at the Total Cost of Ownership of large beacon developments. We discuss where vBeacons work best and see Cisco's web management tools in action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Getting beacon deployment right is the difference between success and failure. It involves art, organization and science. We distill what you need to know into ten critical success factors and discuss them with Siddharth Panigrahi of Gimbal, one of the most experienced engineers in this area. Sidd has worked on many of the biggest beacon deployments in the world, including three Super Bowls, SXSW, MLB's baseball stadiums and Citibank. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's easy to make mistakes when it comes to privacy and beacon apps. The consequences are serious. Hear Jarno Vanto of Borenius, one of the leading lawyers that specializes in beacon privacy describe the pitfalls and how to avoid them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.