Long-Range (200m) BLE Beacons with 1Mb EEPROM

Re:Long-Range (200m) BLE Beacons with 1Mb EEPROM by skewart on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @10:19PM (#12356597)

Yeah, like a sibling comment suggests, beacons are definitely in the bottom of the trough of disillusionment on the Gartner hype cycle chart.

There is a ton of potential for them though, but perhaps more in the autonomous vehicles and robotics space than in the realm of current consumer devices. Of course, there are plenty of competing technologies in the micro-location space.

Making beacons more computationally powerful beyond just broadcasting a UUID is an interesting development, and one competing tech, like location fingerprinting, can't easily do.

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Re:Long-Range (200m) BLE Beacons with 1Mb EEPROM by calgoo on Thursday August 25, 2016 @05:38AM (#12357836)

Yea I can see usage for big shops like wallmart etc where its next to impossible to find something if you dont know the store. Image if these where available for each area, and you just put in what you are looking for and it guides you to the correct section.

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Re:Long-Range (200m) BLE Beacons with 1Mb EEPROM by rasz_pl on Friday August 26, 2016 @08:56AM (#12365836)

imagine this would work great .. if cellphones on the market were equipped with location tracking phase arrays instead of piece of wire for antenna.

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