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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. Als
by 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 agoYes, 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'