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I do have to say that some of their pains could be alleviated by choosing the right vendor(s). We started with a few Estimote beacons (they are fantastic for sm
by manyxcxi 11y ago
I do have to say that some of their pains could be alleviated by choosing the right vendor(s). We started with a few Estimote beacons (they are fantastic for small site/Dev work and really are a great company), but we met with and found many solutions to management, security, etc. Estimote beacons are VERY simple. Choosing another vendor allows remote management, health monitoring, rolling identifiers, a whole host of other solutions to the problem.
We even went to a Meetup where Nordic Semiconductor wound up sending us some of their Dev kits and WE created our own beacon OS. There are so many more options available for really big installs.
- verelo 11y agoI hope you're right about the vendors. I've come across two now, and both times thought we did our diligence but part way into the campaign continued to get surprised by different issues that really just ended up coming down to a lack of appreciation for the app owner wanting to control the communication to the end user, and serious software quality issues (like the vendors SDK causing unavoidable crashes)
- IshKebab 11y agoYeah the Nordic chips are really great. I've created a device that is both an iBeacon and a normal BLE device, and another that is as many iBeacons as you want in one. I did try spamming hundreds of random iBeacons to see if it would crash any phones (apparently that used to crash old Android phones) but it didn't really do anything.
- pierre 11y agoWe get some bad experience with estimote too. They are not mean to sell. For large scale deployment we end up using em micro [1] ones, cheaper, better, stronger and ability to reprogram the beacon OS. [1] https://www.emdeveloper.com/downloads/embeacon/CoinStandardAdPage.pdf https://www.emdeveloper.com/downloads/embeacon/CoinStandardA...