BTLE tags

[Michael Butash]

I really don't know those solutions, but I know the bar is pretty damn low
to beat currently for what I have tried the past year.

Kontact.io beacons had the best apps and setup, ie. it actually worked
unlike Bluvision and other various chinese white-box solutions that either
their apps were janky, or simply didn't work (probably infecting my phone
at the same time).

None of the iBeacon or Eddystone tech seems usable in phones, or rather is
simply already abandonware, so not sure the point.  RTLS tracking solutions
still seem simply beyond our state of technology and cost.

-mb

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 5:36 PM, David Schwartz <newsletters at thetoolwiz.com>
wrote:

> So you’re suggesting that the solutions from TrackR and EveryKey might
> actually be more robust solutions than other off-the-shelf stuff?
>
> -David Schwartz
>
>
>
> On Dec 26, 2017, at 3:42 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:
>
> I've played some with the BLE RTLS tags from Kontact.io
> <https://u2206659.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=0rvXUvFWJn-2BIPAYpSpvhNV3t89xLim65ekhV9KpLmqg-3D_6lpMB7VLnN-2Fj9-2FEErg8-2F-2BMBpb5QxlByTgv2M3fbWD9ebvC-2BWrN3h7jImK8EVWYBeFZ86ht9cfw8qhsSpVPORD0LQGCdQliXbtSMf0-2BxPHuYZiYeY8nstRmuWv8kvMRaIqfeitC6e1MRCtLTh-2BECLwkPKd-2FBFaMtGlQUQtzKqMGXUv7pQSwkwYCF-2FvhghhFrIfRydQZ3o4FHG87gQBImJ-2FuIVCtXQ-2BgSxHJ0M6uwrFRc-3D>
> and others, and find them all to be finicky around their solutions.  It
> didn't seem like there was anything in the open realm when I last looked
> around 9mo ago, they were all very bound to their vendor and solutions,
> from setup to capabilities, even the cheap chinese clones on ebay.
>
> We do managed security for various industries, including hospitals and
> like, so we partnered with a vendor for a pretty cool wireless and BLE
> location solution from a company called Mist Systems
> <https://u2206659.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=3cK2FVJjyu2N-2Bxco034fZjlsw0EhIkRbmS-2Feinng5x8-3D_6lpMB7VLnN-2Fj9-2FEErg8-2F-2BMBpb5QxlByTgv2M3fbWD9ebvC-2BWrN3h7jImK8EVWYBeFZ86ht9cfw8qhsSpVPORDxHODGyWv-2FFiHSBWUvo-2FzYVQ6BMitNFNHxrIEUE3vPXM8pUqjAIFbK4i0dd8Cg0f8-2FMUkmiXEyRlddIbg2N7cBG10rsh9MGD7OqRc1rGkYoio2K1klSROs5gNbpD7m4SVs5vGRhlPH86uHYvCw9fhEo-3D>,
> which works with the ble tracking devices with an array of 9 directional
> bluetooth radios (plus wifi!), and I bought essentially an assortment of
> ble tags and beacons as a poc here.  I can't say any of the beacons seem to
> work well themselves, and their setup apps are all quirky and/or just
> broken (at least under android).  Kontact was the best, but their beacons
> are HUGE.  I couldn't imagine doing these at large scale really with the
> state of the tech today, but the mist ap's can do some cool things if the
> rest of the industry could get it together.
>
> I'd be curious to know what others are doing in this space, I sort of
> shelved it after the customer lost interest and I found all the devices
> annoying to deal with.  We have the Mist AP's deployed at our office that
> can do some interesting things with the BLE device data, contact me offline
> if interested in testing some of the features with the tech.
>
> -mb
>
>
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