Congrats Estimotes! I have their beacons sitting on my desk. I can't speak for the capabilities yet – but the design is gorgeous
They're sitting on my desk too! :-) https://twitter.com/SnowPlowData/status/409999490192396289
Nice! Coded anything yet?
iBeacon Pioneers Estimote (YC S13) Raise $3.1M Seed Round
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#12Congrats Estimotes! I have their beacons sitting on my desk. I can't speak for the capabilities yet – but the design is gorgeous
Thanks! Capabilities live up to the design, at least :)
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#13I'm excited to see where this goes. I was recently on a team for the Salesforce Hackathon that created a pretty cool rewards and consumer statistics platform. Earn points for visiting, get a push notification when you receive a reward, etc. Awesome for the consumer. The business owner gets statistics based on foot traffic, peak hours, most visited beacons, etc.
We didn't have any iBeacons handy (only 5 days between idea and completion), so we were using an iPad to broadcast an "iBeacon". It was pretty neat. I'd like to get my hands on some of Estimotes beacons.
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#14Congratulations to the Estimote guys! I've borrowed one of these to test out their signal strength/consistency.
(At a recent AngelHack, I built an indoor-positioning system based on triangulation of signal strength. I tested with a StickNFind BLE device and a couple of homemade BLE(-ish) devices based on nRF24L01 RF modules. I'm hoping the signal strength from the Estimote is going to be more consistent than these.)
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#15The potential applications are fascinating, but I'm getting a new picture of the thought behind Apple's addition of Control Center in iOS 7: The Bluetooth toggle isn't just there for a modicum of battery conservation. Sometimes you'll welcome iBeacons; other times you'll want to keep them at arm's length.
With fine-grained control over an individual app's behavior, do we need an all-or-nothing Bluetooth setting to control how they use iBeacons?
Yeah, super curious as to what Apple is cooking in that department, I'm sure they are thinking about it a lot. For now their policy is just to OPT-IN by downloading relevant app and giving it permissions, you will not get spammed by beacons for which you didn't download relevant app.
Re: iBeacon Pioneers Estimote (YC S13) Raise $3.1M Seed Round
#16I'm excited to see where this goes. I was recently on a team for the Salesforce Hackathon that created a pretty cool rewards and consumer statistics platform. Earn points for visiting, get a push notification when you receive a reward, etc. Awesome for the consumer. The business owner gets statistics based on foot traffic, peak hours, most visited beacons, etc. We didn't have any iBeacons handy (only 5 days between i…
Hey, I'm Lukasz, CTO at Estimote, I'd love to take a look—please drop us a line!
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#17Placed an order 2 months ago, still waiting...
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#18Estimotes are nice for production, but we built testing beacons out of Raspberry Pi's
http://developer.radiusnetworks.com/2013/10/09/how-to-make-a...
Here's a link the source for an app that we wrote for a Party that we threw recently..
https://github.com/backofthecup/HolidayParty
We built a few D3 visualizations of where users were at the party, and how fast they found hidden iBeacons... kind of like a treasure hunt game to demo the technology.
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#19Placed an order 2 months ago, still waiting...
Same here
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#20Congrats Estimote - We recently got the developer pack and implemented an Android SDK for the same, and the motes are handy. The calibration is a bit off for each mote, and thus location accuracy is a bit compromised. Hope the production version will be better calibrated.
We also have a similar SDK that works over indoor WiFi, though the accuracy is definitely better for the BLE beacon.