Mister Beacon

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jeff Russakow discusses the deployments Gimbal are powering, reveals numbers of developers on Gimbal's network, and a surprising vertical that is exploding ... and it's not retail.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Interview with Proxama CEO of Proximity Marketing Jon Worley. He discusses the lessons learnt and results Proxama have seen from their pioneering work building one of the first beacon networks, deploying beacons in buses, taxis, airports, and town centers in the UK.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Estimote’s Jakub Krzych is CEO & Co-Founder of the most visible of the Bluetooth Beacon makers. He discusses the use cases that are driving the market forward, their newest products enabling direct control of appliances, the latest announcements from Google and offers free Physical Web T-Shirts to our listeners.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We talk to one of the leaders in indoor location technology using Bluetooth Beacons, Pointr Labs' COO Chris Charles about what people are using indoor aps for, why venues are investing into indoor mapping, the level of accuracy achievable, what deployment involves, the relevance of what Google is doing with its new standards, examples of customers and the future of the industry.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.