Most people these days are familiar with the Internet of Things, at least in concept – but when we speak of the web of things, we are speaking of an entirely different, though related issue. On this episode of Mr. Beacon, Stephen talks with Dominique Guinard, CTO of Evrythng, a company that helps brands create and establish digital links with their products. There are many reasons for this kind of technological integration into physical products and the two of them discuss the issues behind a un...
Feb 19, 2018•23 min•Ep. 67
RFID vs Bluetooth - It's a debate that will go on for some time as the technologies continue to improve and change. In this conversation with Mike Kastner we dive into the controversy to discover if there are any ways that we can understand the two technologies comparatively without feeling that we have to jettison either one. It's a lively conversation that focuses on the pros and cons of each technology and the wide range of applications that can be considered for each one. If you or your comp...
Feb 12, 2018•42 min•Ep. 66
Personal Asset Tracking has been one of the great success stories of the Beacosystem. Companies like Stick-N-Find, Trackr and Tile were some of the first vendors and they have been selling many millions of beacons. Haystack Magic is a new challenger to the approach these incumbents have used, with a software solution that uses lower cost general purpose beacons. The Haystack Magic user interface is designed to use the way the human mind works to track things. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...
Feb 05, 2018•27 min•Ep. 65
As we consider what is known as The Internet of Things, RAIN RFID is one of the technologies that will undoubtedly be an integral part of IOT moving forward. Will there be a day when actual things such as sweaters and socks are identified via electronic technologies? Steve Halliday, president of the RAIN IFID Association says he has no doubt about it. In this great conversation, Steve shares a great deal of information about what RAIN is capable of doing now and looks into the future to exp...
Jan 29, 2018•35 min•Ep. 64
Can you even imagine any reason your motor oil would need to be a connected product? To stretch your thinking a bit more, how about pharmaceuticals? These are some of the cutting edge examples of how connectivity in packaging and everyday products is making a difference both to the consumer and the cost and production inherent in bringing those products to market. In this episode of Mr. Beacon, Steve talks with Marcin Pilarz, CEO of Talkin’ Things, a company that integrates connected technologie...
Jan 22, 2018•40 min•Ep. 63
Creating an app that can be the remote control for a venue is an art and a science. Venuetize have developed and acquired technologies for just that purpose that are unusual and distinctive. Venuetize's CTO has unparalleled experience in creating successful mobile apps that predate the advent of the Apple App Store. Listen to his case studies and lessons learned. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 05, 2018•35 min•Ep. 62
A wave of multi-level marketing (MLM) firms are creating beacon offerings, putting Bluetooth beacons in the hands of business people completely unfamiliar with the technology. We find out what's happening, who is using the technology, the problems and the opportunities by talking to Victoria Gonzalez, a solopreneur who has been figuring out how to make beacons work for her small businesses. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 20, 2017•22 min•Ep. 61
Water.io is a pioneer in augmenting packaging with Bluetooth sensors, opening up new user experiences and business models while giving us a preview of what is to come. We talk to Kobi Bentkovski, CEO and co-founder, about how their system works and the implications of this transformation in how products are delivered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 15, 2017•15 min•Ep. 59
A masterclass / case study from Markus Wulff of the Absolut Company on how his team integrated the digital world with the physical (bottles of Malibu) using RFID to engage their customers. Recorded after his awesome presentation at the @Active Intelligent Packaging Industry Association conference in Amsterdam. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 08, 2017•25 min
Understanding where the beacon market will go is critical for entrepreneurs and solution designers. In a market this complex, it's also very difficult to do. We have the privilege of talking to some amazing players in the beacon ecosystem, which helps inform our annual forecast. In this episode, we focus on our assessment of what's happened in 2017 plus some key predictions for the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 01, 2017•22 min
#56 – Real Time Location Systems have been considered rare and exotic technology deployments until recently. Bluetooth is changing all that, in a way that is sparking a wave of innovation–not just in high tech, but in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, hospitals and office buildings around the world. We talk with the person that literally wrote the book on RTLS, Ajay Malik. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 25, 2017•39 min
Bill Davidson has a unique perspective from his positions as a VC, CAO at Global Foundries, SVP of Marketing & Investor Relations at Qualcomm and his early days working for the Bell co. that would become Verizon. He shares the story of his career in what evolved into IoT and first hand experience implementing some of the early wireless use cases that have resurfaced again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 18, 2017•48 min
#54 – Museums, despite being associated with the past, have been at the leading edge of Bluetooth beacon adoption. We visited Dieter Fenkart-Fröschlt, COO of the San Diego Museum of Art and talked about what drove their investment in a beacon-enabled app, how they approached it and what the business benefits have been. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 11, 2017•33 min
Bluetooth Mesh is perhaps the biggest thing to happen to IoT since Bluetooth Low Energy sparked the revolution of beacon technology, wearables and thousands of other connected products. Szymon Slupik, CTO of Silvair and Chair of the Bluetooth Mesh Working Group at Bluetooth SIG explains what the release of this new standard means, what mesh is, why it was necessary and the applications that it enables. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 04, 2017•30 min
#52 – Bluetooth connects millions of IoT nodes, but who are the people behind the standard, where did it come from, and where is it going? Most importantly, how can we influence or understand it better? Mark Powell, Executive Director of the Bluetooth SIG answers these questions and many more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 27, 2017•21 min
Erik Bjontegard has been a pioneer in using #IoT technologies to develop a context platform, and has the customers and partners to prove it. He explains the strategy he's used as a serial entrepreneur, what the Spark Compass platform does, and the metrics it yields for specific customers of his. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 13, 2017•33 min
Acquiring location data is challenging, but how do you monetize it? Verve is one of the few companies who have been able create a successful location based ad network using billions of location data points. We talk to Brian Dunphy, a veteran of Qualcomm, Gimbal and now Verve about what it takes to be successful in this market. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 06, 2017•30 min
Have you figured out how to make your apps successful? Research shows that over the past four years, the percentage of companies that do has jumped from 10% to 90%. But having such a strategy does not guarantee success. Phunware have a unique track record of success powering apps from Netflix, NBC Sports and Fox to Cisco and even NFL stadiums. This week, Phunware CEO Alan Knitowski deep dives into every major aspect of what it takes to be successful in mobile apps. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
Aug 30, 2017•59 min
How are big data and the IoT reshaping the shipping industry? We sat down with the Chief Business Officer of Alpha Ori, Sam Jha, to learn how they're helping steer their customers toward smart shipping. Don't miss this fascinating episode, our first to deal with pirates and autonomous ships! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 23, 2017•21 min
What is the state of the Internet of Things? What are some examples of IoT gone wrong and which companies are getting it right? We sat down with former Qualcomm and Intel IoT strategist Aidoo Osei and tapped into his well-informed insights on what IoT is now and where it's going in the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 16, 2017•26 min
How are Indoor location systems evolving? What are Gatwick Airport and Harrod’s doing with this technology? Hear why a leader in indoor location is adding asset tracking features to their product. Mr. Beacon goes back to London to speak with Chris Charles, COO of Pointr Labs about why one of the UK's largest travel hubs and most prestigious retailer are using their services with Bluetooth beacons on a major scale. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 07, 2017•11 min
Is there an alternative to LP WAN to connect IoT devices? Cisco Jasper have proved there is. In this episode, special guest Martyn Etherington, CMO of Cisco Jasper, discusses the ways Jasper's IoT connectivity platform is playing a huge role in the management and monetization of cellular SIM card connections to IoT devices. We hear the inside stories of how some major companies are connecting networks of devices to the cloud. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 20, 2017•22 min
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 t...
Jun 05, 2017•42 min
#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 mor...
May 29, 2017•23 min
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 ...
May 20, 2017•20 min
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....
May 15, 2017•32 min
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....
May 15, 2017•13 min
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 ...
May 05, 2017•9 min
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 informat...
Apr 30, 2017•13 min
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....
Apr 25, 2017•4 min
