We at our company also tried to develop solutions based on beacons for our customers. The major hindrance to acceptance of beacons is people here almost always

We at our company also tried to develop solutions based on beacons for our customers. The major hindrance to acceptance of beacons is people here almost always switch off bluetooth in their phones. I think phone designers should give 2 different switches for switching bluetooth on/off in the UI. One for traditional bluetooth and another for BLE. That way customers can be pursuaded to keep ble on.