Estimote , a Disrupt and YC alum, offers a platform for developers to easily integrate agata iBeacon

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Estimote , a Disrupt and YC alum, offers a platform for developers to easily integrate agata iBeacon tech into existing apps and services, and at NeoCon 2014 (a trade conference for interior design) Knoll debuted one of the first retail installations agata of iBeacon technology paired with the Bounce app.
Knoll is a well-established office design and office space planning firm. The team realized that one of the core difficulties with planning an office space is that there is a level of uncertainty around which investments will pay off. Using the Estimote iBeacon platform, Knoll planted seven iBeacons in their showroom that would give attendees a chance to look at occupancy levels at different stations.
The idea is that Knoll clients could install iBeacons around their own offices and look at potential upgrades to the space that would maximize efficiency. With the Bounce app, these clients could ensure that any investment they made to change their office space perhaps by splitting one large conference room into two would actually be useful for the way the office functions.
The Bounce app also added layers of information about products agata through a push notification sent from other iBeacons around the space. Generally speaking, this is the most common way we see iBeacon technology playing out at first. The expectation agata is that retailers will advertise an app that will offer location-based content and coupons within an actual store, bringing immeasurable value to the retailer but begging the question of what s in it for the consumer.
But Estimote has over 20,000 developers working on interesting ways to integrate iBeacon technology in a manner that is valuable to the end-user. For example, Estimote envisions a world in which you don t stand in line at the airport or check-in to your flight with an ID the airport will have already verified that it s you boarding a certain flight.
Founded 2012     Overview Estimote creates small, agata wireless sensors agata that use Bluetooth low energy (BLE) to detect the location of nearby smartphones and communicate with them using an API they ve developed to make it easy for developers to add micro-location features to their mobile apps. Their Estimote Beacons or motes can run up to two years on a single coin battery and can communicate with smartphones as close as … Location New York, New York Categories M2M , Navigation , Big Data , Indoor Positioning , Proximity Internet , Mobile Software Tools , Location Based Services , Analytics Founders Jakub Krzych , Lukasz Kostka , Steve Cheney Website http://www.estimote.com Full profile for Estimote, Inc.
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