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I appreciate what you guys are doing and get that you're here to make a profit etc but even now at this super early stage the market for beacon hardware is so c
by localhost3000 12y ago
I appreciate what you guys are doing and get that you're here to make a profit etc but even now at this super early stage the market for beacon hardware is so competitive that you've totally priced yourself out for people like me. I'll be deploying >1000 beacons this year. Beacons take about 30 seconds to configure using a configuration app (of which there are many). The biggest cost in doing a deployment is literally transporting the thing to it's location and placing it. The hardware should cost next to nothing (which it will pretty soon). The real value, like you've said, is in the services running atop the hardware. Just my opinion... That said, I'm interested in hearing what a partnership looks like w/ you guys since, as I said, I am deploying many beacons this year and for the foreseeable future.
- bravo22 12y agoWe're about a month away from releasing really inexpesnive iBeacons w/ sensors, ARM, etc. -- sub $10. You can program them to do additional processing if you want. What's your email address? Would love to have you as part of our beta.
- localhost3000 12y agoian.stanczyk at gmail
- bravo22 12y agoOk.
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- johnweez 12y agoCould I get some more info on this as well? jar3737@gmail.com
- bravo22 12y agoSure.
- otgilbert 12y agoVery interested to learn more. Looking to make a purchase of about ~500 - 800 units in 2 months. otgilbert (at) gmail.com
- davidhclark 12y agoWill you email me info pls? david at aisleup.com
- 2pasc 12y agoCan you send me info as well plg at sixdoors
- MrQuincle 12y agoWe are also working on these, target sub 10 euro, combined with high-voltage (230V in Europe) switch functionality. All this stuff is still way too expensive on the moment.
- iammaxus 12y agoI'd be interested to learn more as well ibeacon@formlabs.com
- tashoecraft 12y agowould also like to get in on this tashoecraft@gmail.com
- stevedc3 12y agoThanks so much for discussing with us. We’d love to engage with you directly and get you a quote for larger 1,000 and up beacon quantities. I’m available at steve at estimote dot com. Estimote has been 100% focused on making the initial experience with developers easy and fast. As such we’re selling the hardware as a kit for $99. But we don’t charge that much for bulk beacon orders. The challenge with deploying 1,000 beacons is not the beacon cost as you point out – it’s in security, extensibility and all the elements of RAS that a networking protocol carries with it. In fact all of those are smaller parts of your overall cost, which is to build a mobile app and experience. We understand that. These deployments are much more similar to enterprise Wi-Fi in that regard – access points are a small percentage of the deployment of Wi-Fi. In fact, even one site deployment of beacons which needs to be switched out (say due to failure) would cost more than the beacons themselves. Which is why saving a few thousand dollars on beacons makes no sense. Trust me we’re tripling down on 100% fully integrated hw / sw in order to create the tools and end to end experience that developers need to be successful.
- michaelbay86 12y agoMaybe it's also worth looking into some of their competitors. I've bought some beacons from Kontakt.io as well as Onyx Beacon. They both had similar offering. For Onyx Beacon I also ordered 50 for an event we were doing since they had good pricing and they shipped it to us in one day.