Background on Indoor Location and Positioning Technologies, some considerations for anyone thinking about trials or deployments, and a few thoughts on applying them in (for example) the case of a Bank (like say, Citi).
Beacons Light Either fingerprint or triangulate WiFi Access Points or Beacons Sound How Comment All mobile platform vendors use this (see next) Magnetic Dead Reckoning Dedicated Beacons used to mark areas or zones Apple iBeacon recently became the poster child for this Special Lights emit a unique code invisible to human eye Front facing camera detects the code Sound inaudible to the human ear ShopKick pioneered this in US Fingerprint of magnetic field variations used to fix position Area is first mapped in order to create a magnetic field map Direction, Speed, Turns, Height, Requires a known fixed starting point (often GPS or WiFi)
require installation of infrastructure, such as beacons, WiFi, or lights. Accuracy Accuracy varies both by type of solution, and by density of infrastructure in some cases TCO Does the solution require power source, battery replacement? Will it work over mobile product cycles? Control Who else can or could use the infrastructure? 1 2 3 4
Greeting. Personal concierge (“whisk away”). Alert to staff member. Departure Thanks. “by the way…”, RAOK. Wait / browse Self-service on phone - “how can we help today?”. “Let us come to you”. Insertion point for relevant information, offer, or reminder. Here to pick something up? Timer for being dealt with. Partner brands? Action Pick up. Queue jump. Get seen with reduced friction, uncertainty. 1 2 3 4
and Venues Arrival Welcome / Greeting. Personal concierge (“whisk away”). Alert to staff member. Departure Thanks. “by the way…”, RAOK. Wait / browse Self-service on phone - “how can we help today?”. “Let us come to you”. Insertion point for relevant information, offer, or reminder. Here to pick something up? Timer for being dealt with. Action Rewards, Offers, Discounts. 1 2 3 4
likely changes Privacy One word: Nordstorm! Opt-in, opt-out. What’s best practise? Data Can you handle, process, manage the data that will flow? Customers Handled poorly, can spook people Trials Timings, customer segmentation, use-cases (simple!) 1 2 3 4 5
Advocate, Google Ventures, Investor Covers nearly everything that moves involving HyperLocal Ads, Publishing, indoor advertising, etc. See company list - a few (ours!) have decent blogs covering the area.