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Why not just use bluetooth beacons for that?

• tedmiston 11y ago
  The strongest answer is that bluetooth beacons don't work well in huge infrastructure. Sometimes you don't have a place for them to go or they get stolen. Also it's free to use the speaker infrastructure, but outfitting and managing hundreds of beacons is not cheap. Some of our clients have switched to audio beacons for similar reasons. The Brooklyn Museum did a nice writeup of why bluetooth beacons at scale didn't work for them. https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/2015/02/04/the-realities-of-installing-ibeacon-to-scale/ https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/2015/02...
  • rasz_pl 11y ago
    Yes, BT beacons are not cheap when you buy $100 ones from a startup, also whole article was TLDR:'if only we could but a can of spray paint and change color of beacons, but we cant so oh well'
    • makomk 11y ago
      Those beacons have some kind of rubberized case; you can't really spray-paint that. (Also, last I heard the cheaper beacons still weren't terribly cheap and had awful battery life.)
      • ryoshu 11y ago
        HM-10s are a couple bucks in bulk, but managing a large deploy is still difficult.
• mojuba 11y ago
  (Not the original commenter) I suppose because of the short range relative to concert venue sizes, and because generally BLE sucks.