The Mr. Beacon Ambient IoT Podcast

Kevin Hunter, former COO of Gimbal / President of inMarket discusses where the opportunities are for entrepreneurs in the proximity ecosystem. We discuss audience aggregation, AR, Smart Cities, and the impact of Google's Eddystone on the opportunities to create value. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

MOCA’s CEO & CTO explain how proximity is informing the Mobile World Congress app, how they can drive incremental revenue for conference organizers, their experience of solar powered beacons and an example of a beacon enabled app making one of Spain's biggest tourist destinations smarter. https://www.mocaplatform.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 12 - inMarket’s CEO Todd DiPaola describes his company’s approach to bringing together their 44.5MM app users, thousands of stores and dozens of apps in a beacon enabled advertising network Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We explore how Ukranian based Leantegra has blended Bluetooth beacons with Ultra Wide Band (UWB) and Wi-Fi, what UWB is and what it brings to the solution, and the advantages of doing business from an country with faster/cheaper Internet connectivity than the USA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kiyo was the CEO of Meridian and now leads HPE Aruba's beacon business. We hear the story of how Aruba acquired his start-up and how Aruba used Wi-Fi and beacons to solve the challenges of proximity apps at Levi Stadium. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Szymon Niemczura is CEO and Co-Founder of Kontakt.io. He talks about the strategy and applications that have enabled his company to sell the largest number of beacons in 2015 (by ABI's reckoning). We explore how they intend to make money while maintaining their partner relationships, their future offerings, what inspired the founding of their company and what developers need to be aware of before choosing their beacon provider. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rick Belliotti is Director of Information & Technology Services, as well as Business Development for the busiest single runway airport in the USA. He describes the rationale and process of developing a beacon infrastructure, how the airport business works and important things that people need to know, if they want their technology to succeed in one of the busiest types of venue. He also gives us a sneak peak of their new airport app, designed to work at multiple airports. It has some unique proximity features. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Coombs explains what's required to build an Orchestration layer for a beacon solution and why you need one. He shines a light on his company's customers and why some of them came to Rover as a "second surgeon”, asking Rover to fix the problems from their first attempt at beacon deployment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vincenzo Dentamaro reveals details of their deployments at Fiat's factories, the Rome subway and museums in Italy and the US. They talk about their approach to pricing and their future plans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scott Jenson on Google’s announcement to move Physical Web directly into Android, how it's being used, Bluetooth activation and concerns about Google controlling the Physical Web proxy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.