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Beacon Technologies: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Beacosystem
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Beacon Technologies: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Beacosystem

by Stephen Statler
June 2016
Intermediate to advanced
428 pages
14h 13m
English
Apress
Content preview from Beacon Technologies: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Beacosystem
© Stephen Statler 2016
Stephen StatlerBeacon Technologies10.1007/978-1-4842-1889-1_19

19. Augmenting Beacons with Cellular Network Technologies

Stephen Statler1 
(1)
San Diego, California, USA
 
Mario Proietti, Founder and CEO, LocationSmart
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Some Limitations of Beacons

Some of the key attributes that make beacons powerful in identifying that a target user’s device is present at a specific location also lead to some limitations. Some of these attributes and limitations include :
  • Short range (a target user must be in close proximity to a beacon to be detected)
  • Deployment is venue-by-venue (proliferation will take time)
  • Disparity of solutions across venues ...
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