Estimote Proximity Beacons
Hardware
bluetooth beacons
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
2 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Idea: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Long battery life of 3 to 7 years
From 1 comment
Well, 3 to 7 years of life is pretty good.
bb88 on HN
Useful for shipping and high-value asset tracking
From 1 comment
I'm struggling to find important, or new use cases on your forums for your product. Can you offer some non-obvious ones? Using it as a key? Not that much easier to use than a…
Mandatum on HN
Useful for personnel location in construction incidents
From 1 comment
Thanks for taking your time to reply. There's a few novel ideas for industries where personnel location is very important especially when an incident occurs (ie construction)…
Mandatum on HN
Objections
Limited practical use cases beyond obvious ones
From 1 comment
I'm struggling to find important, or new use cases on your forums for your product. Can you offer some non-obvious ones? Using it as a key? Not that much easier to use than a…
Mandatum on HN
Beacons are expensive and short-range compared to alternatives like GPS or phones
From 2 comments
I'm struggling to find important, or new use cases on your forums for your product. Can you offer some non-obvious ones? Using it as a key? Not that much easier to use than a…
Mandatum on HNGPS does not work indoors, and I think all the physical web stuff is great for app discovery
jpcapdevila on HN
iPhone NFC may only read passive tags, limiting compatibility
From 1 comment
Actually, we did a bunch of testing at Estimote and we strongly suspect that the NFC in iPhones is just the "passive" variety, the same that's being put into contactless cards…
heypiotr on HN
Questions
What non-obvious use cases exist for the product
From 1 comment
I'm struggling to find important, or new use cases on your forums for your product. Can you offer some non-obvious ones? Using it as a key? Not that much easier to use than a…
Mandatum on HN
Alternatives named
Ruuvi Tag open source Bluetooth sensor beacon
From 1 comment
Theres an interesting product over at kickstarter. Seems to be getting a quite a bit of traction. Beacon with a whole bunch of different sensors. All open source!…
dolphenstein on HN