Mr. Beacon Ambient IoT Podcast
Our digital and physical worlds are converging Understand the capabilities and limitations of what can be done & the structure of the emerging ecosystem
Proximity and location technologies are key to the Internet of Things (IoT) and are causing our digital and physical worlds to converge. Mr. Beacon is a series of interviews with the leaders of companies that are at the center of this revolution. Steve Statler wrote "Beacon Technologies", a survival guide for people that want to design solutions that use Bluetooth beacons to create experiences that combine location awareness with the power of cloud computing.
Episode #187
April 16, 2024
Unlocking the Potential of the IoT: Inside Rigado's Gateway to Smart Connectivity
Join us on the latest episode of the Mr. Beacon Podcast as we delve into the world of IoT connectivity solu...
Episode #186
February 27, 2024
Practical AI Applications with Computer Vision
This week on Mr. Beacon, we chat with Marty Beard, the Co-Founder and CEO of alwaysAI, a computer vision co...
Episode #185
February 13, 2024
Revolutionizing Retail with Ambient IoT
On this episode of Mr. Beacon, we're thrilled to have Thaddeus Sergura, the VP of Data Products at Wiliot, ...
Episode #184
January 23, 2024
Lighting Up Supply Chains with TrackVision AI
Curt Schacker is the Co-Founder of TrackVision AI, a startup with a mission to revolutionize supply chain v...
Episode #183
January 09, 2024
Beyond the Chip: RFID Innovations from EM Microelectronic
Welcome to the Mr. Beacon Podcast, in this episode, join me as I sit down with Pierre Muller, a key figure ...
Episode #182
December 26, 2023
One of the IoT’s Latest Buzzwords: Digital Product Passports
This week on the Mr. Beacon Podcast, we sit down with Dominique Guinard, VP of Innovation at Digimarc, for ...
Episode #181
December 12, 2023
Access Granted: Exploring RFID, IoT, and the Future of Connectivity
Welcome to the Mr. Beacon Podcast. This week we’re exploring the cutting edge of RFID and IoT innovation wi...
Episode #180
November 28, 2023
Navigating Healthcare Visibility with Vizzia Technologies
This week on the Mr. Beacon Podcast we delve into the world of healthcare tracking technology from an unusu...
Episode #179
November 14, 2023
Unveiling IoT Innovations with SODAQ's Ollie Smeenk
This week on the Mr. Beacon Podcast we are joined once again by Ollie Smeenk, the co-founder of SODAQ. The ...
Episode #178
October 31, 2023
IBM Food Trust: Transforming the Future of Food Safety and Supply Chains
This week on the Mr. Beacon Podcast, we have a very special guest, IBM! Wiggs Civitillo, who has been a par...
Episode #177
October 17, 2023
Revolutionizing Healthcare Asset Tracking with Blyott
This week on the Mr. Beacon Podcast, we're excited to have a returning guest, Gery Pollet, the Founder and ...
Episode #176
October 03, 2023
Navigating the Future of Quick Service Restaurants and IoT
In this episode of Mr. Beacon, we dive deep into the world of Quick Service Restaurants (QSR) and explore h...
Episode #175
September 19, 2023
Networking the Real World: Exploring Nodle's Digital Revolution
This week on Mr. Beacon, we dive into the world of blockchain networks with Nodle. You might recognize the ...
Episode #174
September 05, 2023
Safer Plates: Navigating Food Traceability and Safety with Julie McGill
Welcome to the Mr. Beacon Ambient IoT Podcast, in this episode, I speak with Julie McGill, the Vice Preside...
Episode #173
August 22, 2023
Electronic Shelf Labels with Bluetooth SIG
This episode we have on the Senior Product Marketing Manager from Bluetooth SIG, Kayla Myrhow, and together...
Episode #172
August 08, 2023
5G and IEEE 802.11 Standards Updates with Amichai Sanderovich
Today on Mr. Beacon we're joined once again by Amichai Sanderovich, the Standards Representative from Wilio...
Episode #171
August 02, 2023
The FDA’s FSMA Section 204 Architect Frank Yiannas
This week’s episode of Mr. Beacon, we’re back into the world of food safety with a true pioneer in the fiel...
Episode #170
July 25, 2023
Ambient IoT using Backscatter and Wi-Fi
Welcome to the Mr. Beacon Podcast, where we delve into the world of cutting-edge technology and innovation,...
Episode #169
July 11, 2023
Indoor Location Services with IndoorAtlas
This week on Mr. Beacon we return to the world of indoor navigation with Erik Piehl, the CEO of IndoorAtlas...
Episode #168
June 27, 2023
Connecting Food Supply Chains with Farm To Plate
In this episode, we sit down with Bill Ritcey, the Senior Director of Strategy at Farm To Plate, a pioneeri...
Episode #167
June 13, 2023
The Internet of Packaging with WestRock
This week on Mr. Beacon we are talking with John Dwyer, the VP of Digital Solutions at WestRock, a sustaina...
Episode #166
May 30, 2023
Snapdragon Sound with Mike Canevaro
This week we have the Director, marketing, and head of Snapdragon Sound, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Mike C...
Episode #165
May 16, 2023
LoRaWAN - The Things Industries
In this episode, we delve into the world of LoRaWAN, a groundbreaking technology that is revolutionizing th...
Episode #164
May 02, 2023
Innovations in Wireless Charging with AirFuel
One of the keys to scaling ambient IoT is eliminating batteries and wires. In this week’s Mr. Beacon, we ex...
Episode #163
March 28, 2023
Forget Everything You Know About Sales - Machines Are the Customers Now
In this fascinating podcast episode, we dive into the future of commerce with Don Scheibenreif, author of "...
Episode #162
March 13, 2023
An Interview with ChatGPT on Ambient IoT
In this fascinating podcast episode, we dive deep into the world of ambient IoT technology with none other ...
Episode #161
February 14, 2023
Transforming the Supply Chain with Ambient IoT
This week on Mr. Beacon we have Thaddeus Segura, who is the VP of the Data Business Unit at Wiliot. Thaddeu...
Episode #160
January 09, 2023
Mr. Beacon Ambient IoT News: CES 2023
This week on the Mr. Beacon Ambient IoT podcast, we’re launching our news segment with coverage from CES 20...
Episode #159
January 03, 2023
IoT Standards you need to know: Z-Wave versus Matter, Thread & Zigbee
In this week’s interview with Mitch Klein, Executive Director of the Z-Wave Alliance and leader of Silicon ...
Episode #158
December 07, 2022
Finding the Angle - The Bluetooth Angle-of-Arrival Tech Creates Competitive Rush
In the past, Bluetooth Angle of Arrival (AoA) was considered an exotic niche market, where high accuracy (s...
Episode #157
November 22, 2022
Funding Lessons for Entrepreneurs in a Flash
Dov Moran is a venture capitalist and very successful CEO. As well as being a great VC, he invented the USB...
Episode #156
November 08, 2022
Powering Ambient IoT Bluetooth Devices with Backscatter
There’s more than one way to get rid of batteries on an Ambient IoT device. Jeeva’s CEO explains their appr...
Episode #155
October 25, 2022
Food Safety Modernization Act - All Hype or Ready for Primetime?
This week on Mr. Beacon we speak with Ed Treacy, Vice President of Supply Chain and Sustainability at Inter...
Episode #154
October 10, 2022
The Energous Wireless Power Revolution
Cesar Johnston has a lot to say about the future of the IoT. Capturing wireless energy to power devices has...
Episode #153
September 27, 2022
6G and Ambient IoT
Bluetooth tags have been revolutionary in connecting our digital and physical worlds, but have yet to achie...
Episode #152
September 20, 2022
IFCO Sees All - How ESG and the IoT Are Joined at the Hip
Sustainability and ESG are becoming major drivers of IoT projects. As entrepreneurs and solutions designers...
Episode #151
September 12, 2022
How Companies Are Becoming More Sustainable
It's inspiring that SAP has bestowed the title of "VP - Futurism" on someone. And there is no better someo...
Episode #150
September 06, 2022
Solving Food Waste in Supply Chains
There are huge opportunities to make our food supply chains more efficient (that’s a polite way of saying w...
Episode #149
August 30, 2022
The New EPCIS 2.0 Standard
The new GS1 EPCIS 2.0 standard is set to have a dramatic impact on the way we manage supply chains. Its fun...
Episode #148
August 22, 2022
World-Friendly IoT
Can profit and planet ever agree? This week's episode proves they can - thanks to World Friendly IoT - and ...
Episode #147
August 16, 2022
Exploring Omlox
Interested in RTLS, asset tracking or Industrial IoT? You need to know about the new standard, Omlox, which...
Episode #146
August 09, 2022
Reinventing Apparel Retail with Real Time Inventory
We’re joined this week by Simon Molnar, who is the founder of Flagship, which is a company that is working ...
Episode #145
July 26, 2022
Tag Converters in the IoT
In their role as a “converter”, Tadbik have been at the forefront of creating tags and connected packaging ...
Episode #144
July 12, 2022
Cyber Security in the IoT
Companies are being hacked and ransomed all the time these days, and given the fact that billions of IoT de...
Episode #143
June 28, 2022
Understanding Serialization Platforms with Max Winograd
Does your product have a soul? We are heading into a future where more and more things are getting digital ...
Episode #142
May 31, 2022
Modernizing Supply Chains with Logistics
Logistics is pivotal in shaping modern business operations. As businesses compete and deal with supply chai...
Episode #141
May 17, 2022
Improving the Supply Chain with Serialized Inventory
This week we talk with the leader of the lab that is at the heart of RFID and Auto-ID, about tags in outer ...
Episode #140
May 03, 2022
The Internet of Trillions of Things (IoT2)
What’s going to happen to the world when the Internet explodes by a factor of 100 times, from billions to t...
Episode #139
April 19, 2022
Co-creating the IoT with the Wiliot Starter Kit
This week we switch things up as Steve puts his Wiliot hat on and shines a light on the inside story of Wil...
Episode #138
April 05, 2022
Superpower for Pallets - How Returnable Transport Items Can Help Save the World
This week we are joined by Mattan David, the UK Managing Director of Digipal, an innovator in the next gene...
Episode #137
March 22, 2022
The Two-Barrelled Retail Revolution: COVID + the IoT
We are thrilled that George Anderson - the all-seeing, all-knowing Editor-in-Chief of Retail Wire - will be...
Episode #136
March 08, 2022
Wiliot Version 2.0
This week we have a very special guest, the CEO of Wiliot Tal Tamir. We’ll talk about Wiliot’s latest relea...
Episode #135
February 22, 2022
Blyott’s Medical Asset Tracking Business
This week on The Mr. Beacon Podcast we’re talking with the CEO of Blyott, Gery Pollet. Healthcare is one of...
Episode #134
February 08, 2022
Supply Chain Issues and Writing Tech with Brielle Jaekel
This week on The Mr. Beacon Podcast we’re talking with Brielle Jaekel, who is the Managing Editor of Supply...
Episode #133
December 28, 2021
IoT Standards, Privacy and the Future of IoT
From the leading journalist and podcaster on IoT – Host of The Internet of Things Podcast, Stacey Higginbot...
Episode #132
December 14, 2021
Choosing an Indoor Location and Navigation System
This week we speak with one of the leaders in indoor navigation, Pointr sales leader Paul Dupont, who share...
Episode #131
November 09, 2021
Mr. Beacon Sits Down With Mr. Supply Chain
Suddenly, supply chain wonks are the most-in demand experts of the moment, and given that we were privilege...
Episode #130
October 12, 2021
How to Make IoT Businesses Successful
How is a technology like RFID stacking up against newer implementations like BLE over 2.4GHz? Find out this...
Episode #129
September 28, 2021
Digital Identity with Ramesh Kesanupalli
Today we’re talking with Ramesh Kesanupalli, who is the Co-Founder of the Accountable Digital Identity Asso...
Episode #128
September 14, 2021
Ultra Wideband Technologies for Car Factories
This episode we’re talking with Andy Ward, who is the Co-Founder and CTO of Ubisense, about various technol...
Episode #127
August 31, 2021
Reusable Packaging: Transforming Supply Chains & Business Models with IoT
This week we’ve brought on Tim Debus, who is the President and CEO of The Reusable Packaging Association, t...
Episode #126
August 17, 2021
Sustainable Fashion using IoT Pixels
This week we’re talking about the circular economy and the process of making fashion more sustainable with ...
Episode #125
August 03, 2021
IoT Branding with Adam Hanft
Today we have branding and advertising expert Adam Hanft, who has worked with the likes of Alan Kay and Bar...
Episode #124
June 30, 2021
Minew - The Real Manufacturer of Beacons
This week we will hear a unique perspective. Our guest is from Minew, a Chinese company that has focused on...
Episode #123
May 27, 2021
Inside the World’s Largest Indoor Location Services Platform - Cisco DNA Spaces
Can you guess what the world's largest indoor location services platform is?
Episode #122
May 04, 2021
Kontakt.io Update, IoT & Smart Building
Every day, Kontakt.io’s products touch millions of people in shopping malls, office buildings, and hospital...
Episode #121
April 20, 2021
IoSea
What is the state of IoT on the high seas? What can those of us on dry land learn from the evolution of thi...
Episode #120
March 23, 2021
GS1 - Everything you need to know but were afraid to ask
Do you know the global language of business? The language of Unique Product Codes (UPCs) that identify prod...
Episode #119
March 09, 2021
UWB BlueCats Social Distancing Real World Trial Results
For the first time on the Mr. Beacon Podcast, we have put the rubber to the road and experimented with a so...
Episode #118
February 18, 2021
Auto-ID with Invisible Barcodes
What does it mean to ‘modernize your supply chain’?
Episode #117
February 05, 2021
Understanding AIM
Success in IoT depends on understanding how the ecosystem operates. Auto-ID is a building block at the hear...
Episode #116
January 19, 2021
Turning Products into Platforms using NFC
The next time you a buy product, a purse or a pair of shoes, imagine the capabilities that could be unlocke...
Episode #115
December 16, 2020
The Decision Makers Handbook to Data Science
Why is it that decision makers should care about data science?
Episode #114
December 01, 2020
The Internet of Expensive Things - IoT in Luxury Retail
You’ve heard about the Amazon Go Store and all the big box retailers implementing technology to transform t...
Episode #113
November 10, 2020
The Contactless World Pre and Post COVID, Opportunities in the IoT Landscape
Why would you want Near Field Communication, or more commonly known as NFC, technology in soccer balls, han...
Episode #112
October 27, 2020
The Art of Scaling IoT
Even with the obvious benefits of illuminating your supply chain with IoT technology, assembling all the pi...
Episode #111
October 13, 2020
Forkbeard - Indoor Positioning with Ultra-Sound
IoT insiders know that Bluetooth is not just the wireless technology that we know and use on a daily basis,...
Episode #110
September 30, 2020
How to Make Friends and Influence People in Automotive IoT
What could possibly go wrong when huge businesses try to engage with startups? What should startups expect ...
Episode #109
September 10, 2020
The Future of Supply Chain - Connected, Continuous and Demand Signal Driven
Where are the dark spots in your supply chain? How could your business transform with digital twin of your ...
Episode #108
August 25, 2020
Indoor Location Solutions for COVID Safety
Before COVID, ‘social distancing’ and contact tracing’ were not common household topics, but now we conside...
Episode #107
May 06, 2020
IoT Analytics & SAS’ Event Stream Processing
SAS’ vision of transforming ‘a world of data into a world of intelligence’ seems more relevant than ever wi...
Episode #106
April 22, 2020
Bluetooth COVID 19 Contact Tracing
How are we going to deal with the pandemic at hand, and how do we return to ‘normal’? These are the questio...
Episode #105
April 07, 2020
Embracing and Learning from Failure
How do you feel about your failures? Do you fail enough? If we are all supposed to fail fast, what’s the be...
Episode #104
March 24, 2020
Successful Experience Design for IoT
This week we shift our focus from the usual suspects, Bluetooth & beacons, to the application experiences t...
Episode #103
March 16, 2020
Addressing the IoT Security Challenge
How do you make the IoT secure? What happens when you don’t? What are some of the most powerful IoT compani...
Episode #102
February 11, 2020
The State of the IoT with Deloitte
Following Mister Beacon's appearance on Coffee with Mr. IoT (Watch Here), we switch roles to host Robert Sc...
Episode #101
January 21, 2020
How to succeed at Asset Tracking while becoming a CTO
This week on Mr. Beacon we talk with Cognosos, an asset tracking SAS platform using both Low Power Wide Are...
Episode #100
December 29, 2019
Smart Lighting, Smart Cities
Lighting is everywhere and, conveniently, it’s always powered. This gives it the potential to be a network ...
Episode #99
December 10, 2019
Real Time Location Systems in Healthcare
Midmark is the 100+ year old company that “we all know, but don’t know”. The last time you were at the doct...
Episode #98
November 12, 2019
The Return of the Physical Web
The Physical Web: What is it, what happened to it, and what is the Physical Web Association’s response? Thi...
Episode #97
October 09, 2019
Ultra-Wideband (UWB) in the iPhone 11
Ultra-Wideband (UWB) in the iPhone 11 – What is it and what are the implications? A few months ago a la...
Episode #96
August 13, 2019
Optimizing Manufacturing with Bluetooth Pallet Tracking
There’s been a lot of talk about the new Bluetooth Angle of Arrival (AoA) standard. This week we have a fir...
Episode #95
July 30, 2019
The Internet of Apparel
‘Digital to physical convergence and the Internet of Apparel, with a sustainability twist!’ Dr. Kevin Doole...
Episode #94
July 16, 2019
Lessons and Growth in Bluetooth Angle of Arrival & Departure
A few weeks ago we heard about the new Bluetooth 5.1 specification, and notably two new exciting features: ...
Episode #93
June 25, 2019
Bluetooth Tags In Hockey Pucks
This one is for sports fans! Liiga, or Finnish Elite League in English, is the top professional league in F...
Episode #92
June 03, 2019
Inside Bluetooth 5.1 – Direction Finding and More
Think back to the days when we thought of Bluetooth as the connection between our wireless headphones, keyb...
Episode #91
May 13, 2019
Beacons & Food
We have all experienced the annoyance of a waiter that has disappeared, whether it’s because you need menus...
Episode #90
May 01, 2019
IoT & Apparel
Something we talk about often on the Mr. Beacon Podcast is physical to digital convergence. The world of fa...
Episode #89
April 08, 2019
Digital to Physical – The GS1 Digital Link standard
This week on Mr. Beacon, we welcome back Dominque Guinard, CTO of Evrything, this time in his capacity as c...
Episode #88
March 12, 2019
Full Stack Beacon Solutions
Imagine a full solution, created with such ease of set up that businesses big and small alike could have a ...
Episode #87
February 26, 2019
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi – The Industry Re-examined with Mist
This week we welcome Bob Friday, CTO of Mist, back to The Mr. Beacon Podcast! On this episode, Bob gives us...
Episode #86
February 15, 2019
Connecting IoT Devices with Bluetooth & Blockchain
This week on Mr. Beacon, we talk to Micha Benoliel, CEO of Nodle, a connectivity provider for the Internet ...
Episode #85
January 29, 2019
Special Edition: Wiliot - Battery-free Bluetooth Sensor Tags
This week we talk to the Wiliot engineers behind the first sticker sized battery free Bluetooth tag about h...
Episode #84
December 28, 2018
Tailored Bluetooth Solutions – From Beacons to NB-IoT
Headquartered near Barcelona, Accent Systems’ main business is designing and developing tailored Bluetooth ...
Episode #83
December 20, 2018
Bluetooth Locking System
This week on Mr. Beacon we talk to Justin Zastrow, CEO, and Ira Hayes, CTO, of Smart Armor. Smart Armor bu...
Episode #82
December 04, 2018
Wayfinding in The Mall of America
There doesn’t seem like a more perfect use of wayfinding services using Bluetooth beacons than in the large...
Episode #81
November 20, 2018
Les Beacons Bluetooth - Pole Star
With 300 million square feet, covering 35 countries, 100,000 beacons, and 200,000 connections per day, the ...
Episode #80
October 16, 2018
Gateways: A Bridge to the Rest of the Internet of Things
One of the essential ingredients to the infrastructure of many systems is a gateway - a device that connect...
Episode #79
August 30, 2018
LTE Beacons
On the August 24th, Estimote launched a first for the IoT industry, an LTE beacon. It leverages cellular LT...
Episode #78
July 11, 2018
Trends in the Bluetooth Beacon Market
Meet the leading designer and maker of Bluetooth beacons in Italy, BlueUp. Partnered with Quuppa for next g...
Episode #77
July 03, 2018
Global Location Trends
Asif Khan, Founder and President of the Location Based Marketing Association (LBMA), defines location based...
Episode #76
June 27, 2018
Leveraging Accurate Indoor Location in Retail
ThinkInside is working with some of the most successful retailers and manufacturers in the world. Making ph...
Episode #75
June 11, 2018
Skin Wearable Technology
We all can relate to the feeling of an uncomfortable wristband, one that was fastened too tight, continuous...
Episode #74
June 04, 2018
Bluetooth Enabled Anti-Counterfeit plus Lost and Found
From sporting goods to luxury items to cosmetics, there a massive problem with counterfeiting. This 1.7 bil...
Episode #73
May 30, 2018
Open Standard for Audio Wayfinding
A UK based nonprofit has created the first internationally recognized standard for accessible audio navigat...
Episode #72
May 23, 2018
BlueCats before iBeacon - UWB and Bluetooth Compared
This week on Mr. Beacon we are talking to a pioneer in the beacon space, Nathan Dunn, CEO of BlueCats. Blue...
Episode #71
May 08, 2018
Current & Future State of Location Technology
Grizzly Analytics is recognized as one of the world’s leading analysts focused on location technologies and...
Episode #70
May 01, 2018
Beacons Empowering the Disabled
Gavin Neate has made several careers out of helping others. After ten years of service in The Royal Air For...
Episode #69
April 24, 2018
What you need to know about GDPR
With the European Union’s new data protection law going into effect imminently, it's driving a flurry of ch...
Episode #68
April 16, 2018
Beacons, Mobile Apps & Smart Cities
Connecthings is in the business of enabling public transport solutions for Smart Cities using a combination...
Episode #67
February 26, 2018
Nanotechnology and Things that Sense
If your pipes could speak, what would they tell you? If your bottle of whiskey could ask questions, what wo...
Episode #66
February 19, 2018
Building the Web of Things – Evrythng
Most people these days are familiar with the Internet of Things, at least in concept – but when we speak of...
Episode #65
February 12, 2018
RFID vs. Bluetooth: Is One Better for IoT?
RFID vs Bluetooth - It's a debate that will go on for some time as the technologies continue to improve and...
Episode #64
February 05, 2018
The Internet of Finding Things
Personal Asset Tracking has been one of the great success stories of the Beacosystem. Companies like Stick-...
Episode #63
January 29, 2018
RAIN RFID Explained
As we consider what is known as The Internet of Things, RAIN RFID is one of the technologies that will undo...
Episode #62
January 22, 2018
Connected Products - Talkin' Things
Can you even imagine any reason your motor oil would need to be a connected product? To stretch your thinki...
Episode #61
January 04, 2018
Beacons & The Art of Apps for Venues
Creating an app that can be the remote control for a venue is an art and a science. Venuetize have develope...
Episode #60
December 20, 2017
Beacons & Multi-Level Marketing
A wave of multi-level marketing (MLM) firms are creating beacon offerings, putting Bluetooth beacons in the...
Episode #59
November 15, 2017
Bluetooth Smart Packaging
Water.io is a pioneer in augmenting packaging with Bluetooth sensors, opening up new user experiences and b...
Episode #58
November 08, 2017
RFID In Packaging
A masterclass / case study from Markus Wulff of the Absolut Company on how his team integrated the digital ...
Episode #57
November 01, 2017
The Future of the Beacon Market
Understanding where the beacon market will go is critical for entrepreneurs and solution designers. In a ma...
Episode #56
October 25, 2017
Real Time Location Systems
Real Time Location Systems have been considered rare and exotic technology deployments until recently. Blue...
Episode #55
October 18, 2017
How To Get Ahead In IoT
Bill Davidson has a unique perspective from his positions as a VC, CAO at Global Foundries, SVP of Marketin...
Episode #54
October 11, 2017
Beacons in Museums – San Diego Museum of Art
Museums, despite being associated with the past, have been at the leading edge of Bluetooth beacon adoption...
Episode #53
October 04, 2017
Bluetooth Mesh – Szymon Slupik
Bluetooth Mesh is perhaps the biggest thing to happen to IoT since Bluetooth Low Energy sparked the revolut...
Episode #52
September 27, 2017
Bluetooth SIG – Mark Powell
Bluetooth connects millions of IoT nodes, but who are the people behind the standard, where did it come fro...
Episode #51
September 13, 2017
Contextual Communications – Spark Compass
Erik Bjontegard has been a pioneer in using IoT technologies to develop a context platform, and has the cu...
Episode #50
September 06, 2017
Location Based Advertising and the Beacosystem – Verve
Acquiring location data is challenging, but how do you monetize it? Verve is one of the few companies who h...
Episode #49
August 30, 2017
Success with Mobile Apps
Have you figured out how to make your apps successful? Research shows that over the past four years, the pe...
Episode #48
August 23, 2017
IoT on the High Seas
How are big data and the IoT reshaping the shipping industry? We sat down with the Chief Business Officer o...
Episode #47
August 16, 2017
The State of IoT – Aidoo Osei
What is the state of the Internet of Things? What are some examples of IoT gone wrong and which companies a...
Episode #46
August 07, 2017
Indoor Location Revisited - Pointr Labs
How are Indoor location systems evolving? What are Gatwick Airport and Harrod’s doing with this technology?...
Episode #45
July 20, 2017
IoT WAN Management - Jasper
Is there an alternative to LP WAN to connect IoT devices? Cisco Jasper have proved there is. In this episod...
Episode #44
June 05, 2017
Asset Tracking - Aruba
In an interview recorded shortly before their announcement, Aruba’s General Manager of Meridian Apps, Özer ...
Episode #43
May 28, 2017
Beacon Gateways - Fathom
As the Beacosystem evolves to address the challenge of fleet management and embrace Real Time Location Syst...
Episode #42
May 19, 2017
Beacons without Batteries - Uwinloc
While the need for Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) to monitor assets in healthcare and manufacturing is s...
Episode #41
May 16, 2017
Virtual Beacons & RTLS - Mist
Ex Cisco CTO now CTO co-founder of Mist, Bob Friday, reveals what his company is doing to use virtual beaco...
Episode #40
May 15, 2017
Kontakt.io's Field Leadership
We get insights into the go-to-market strategy of Kontakt.io, one of the most successful pure play beacon v...
Episode #39
May 04, 2017
Beacons on Broadway
We learn how beacons are being used on and off broadway by The Shubert Organization, the largest theater ow...
Episode #38
April 30, 2017
Beacons & Mobile Ticketing - HID
Philip Hoyer, CTO of HID Global’s Trusted Mobile Ticketing division demonstrates a series of applications o...
Episode #37
April 24, 2017
Modules and Chips - Nordic Semiconductor
Bluetooth Smart chips are at the heart of beacons. When beacons first hit the scene, Nordic Semiconductor g...
Episode #36
April 20, 2017
Physical Web Update - Beeem
We talk with Beeem's CEO Ferenc Brachmann at the Bluetooth SIG World Event in Silicon Valley about the late...
Episode #35
April 16, 2017
Personal Asset Tracking - TrackR
Personal Asset tracking was one of the first use cases for Bluetooth beacons, it’s driven millions of unit ...
Episode #34
April 11, 2017
Bluetooth Qualification
Live from the Bluetooth (SIG) World Event we get schooled on what it takes to get Bluetooth certification f...
Episode #33
April 09, 2017
Beacons with UWB & HDMI - Estimote
We catch-up with Estimote's CEO at the Bluetooth World Event to discuss the Beacosystem and see demos of Es...
Episode #32
March 26, 2017
Beacons & Programmatic Advertising Networks - Airmarket
Andrew Davis, COO of Airmarket, describes the work his company is doing to integrate Bluetooth beacons with...
Episode #31
March 16, 2017
The Physical Web Revisited - Bkon
The Physical Web has huge potential to change the way web content and services are discovered in the physic...
Episode #30
February 21, 2017
IoT - Beacons with Low Power - WAN - Sensoro
Sensoro have broken new ground by combining IoT Low Power - Wide Area Network radios with Bluetooth beacon ...
Episode #29
February 16, 2017
Beacon Orchestration - Pulsate
We talk to Patrick Leddy, the CEO of Pulsate, one of the pioneers in geomarketing about the state of the ma...
Episode #28
February 05, 2017
Geofencing 201
We continue to part two of our master class on geofencing. Patrick Leddy CEO of Pulsate builds on the last ...
Episode #27
January 29, 2017
Geofencing 101
Patrick Leddy CEO of Pulsate draws on his firm’s pioneering experience with Geofencing, reprising the chapt...
Episode #26
January 24, 2017
Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) - BluVision
Bluetooth Beacon powered Real Time Location Systems are being used to monitor and locate assets. This is an...
Episode #25
January 14, 2017
High precision Location - Angle of Arrival - Quuppa - Part 2
We continue our conversation, find out how much the Quuppa locators cost, discuss the future as standards s...
Episode #24
January 08, 2017
High Precision Location - Angle of Arrival - Quuppa Enters the USA
Angle of Arrival (AoA) offers genuine sub-meter accuracy. Quuppa has pioneered the commercialization of AoA...
Episode #23
December 07, 2016
Cisco Just Became the Largest Vendor of Bluetooth Beacon Gateways
Cisco reveals that over half a million of their Meraki Wi-Fi routers in the field have built in Bluetooth h...
Episode #22
November 24, 2016
Beacons & Ticketing - Tickey
Beacons can enable an enhanced ticketing experience by having mobile apps recognize fare gates and ticket c...
Episode #21
November 14, 2016
The Physical Web Revisited with Beeem
We talk with Ferenc Brachmann – CEO of Beeem about their work creating tools to enable the publishing for t...
Episode #20
November 06, 2016
Visual Light Communication (VLC), BLE & the IoT
We learn how Visual Light Communication (VLC) can be combined with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and integrate...
Episode #19
October 24, 2016
Programmatic Advertising & Unacast
Unacast's CEO provides a jargon busting introduction to programmatic advertising and how beacons are creati...
Episode #18
October 16, 2016
Bluetooth Mesh Beacons - Beaconix
Bluetooth mesh offers advantages for management of beacon deployments, enabling new use cases and support f...
Episode #17
September 27, 2016
Cisco's new Beacon Point creates the virtual beacon category
Cisco is disrupting the Beacosystem with its new CMX Beacon Point vBeacon product. Moving beacons with a po...
Episode #16
September 23, 2016
The Art of Beacon Deployment
Getting beacon deployment right is the difference between success and failure. It involves art, organizatio...
Episode #15
September 07, 2016
Privacy - What the Beacosystem Entrepreneur Needs to Know
It's easy to make mistakes when it comes to privacy and beacon apps. The consequences are serious. Hear Jar...
Episode #14
August 30, 2016
Opportunities in Proximity - Where Should Entrepreneurs Focus?
Kevin Hunter, former COO of Gimbal / President of inMarket discusses where the opportunities are for entrep...
Episode #13
August 24, 2016
Beacons & Big Data Applied to Conferences and Smart Cities
MOCA’s CEO & CTO explain how proximity is informing the Mobile World Congress app, how they can drive incre...
Episode #12
August 15, 2016
How to build a profitable Beacon enabled advertising network for brands, apps and venues
Episode 12 - inMarket’s CEO Todd DiPaola describes his company’s approach to bringing together their 44.5MM...
Episode #11
August 05, 2016
Episode 11 - Leantegra CEO Oleg Puzanov
We explore how Ukranian based Leantegra has blended Bluetooth beacons with Ultra Wide Band (UWB) and Wi-Fi,...
Episode #10
July 27, 2016
HP Enterprise - Aruba Beacon Lead Interview
Kiyo was the CEO of Meridian and now leads HPE Aruba's beacon business. We hear the story of how Aruba acqu...
Episode #9
July 13, 2016
Kontakt.io CEO Interview
Szymon Niemczura is CEO and Co-Founder of Kontakt.io. He talks about the strategy and applications that hav...
Episode #8
July 07, 2016
San Diego International Airport's Beacon Infrastructure
Rick Belliotti is Director of Information & Technology Services, as well as Business Development for the bu...
Episode #7
July 04, 2016
Rover CEO Interview
John Coombs explains what's required to build an Orchestration layer for a beacon solution and why you need...
Episode #6
July 03, 2016
Nextome CEO Interview
Vincenzo Dentamaro reveals details of their deployments at Fiat's factories, the Rome subway and museums in...
Episode #5
July 02, 2016
Google's Physical Web Project lead Interview
Scott Jenson on Google’s announcement to move Physical Web directly into Android, how it's being used, Blue...
Episode #4
July 01, 2016
Gimbal CEO Interview
Jeff Russakow discusses the deployments Gimbal are powering, reveals numbers of developers on Gimbal's netw...
Episode #3
June 16, 2016
Proxama CEO Interview
Interview with Proxama CEO of Proximity Marketing Jon Worley. He discusses the lessons learnt and results P...
Episode #2
June 15, 2016
Estimote's CEO Jakub Krzych
Estimote’s Jakub Krzych is CEO & Co-Founder of the most visible of the Bluetooth Beacon makers. He discusse...
Episode #1
June 13, 2016
Intro to the Series & Pointr Labs COO Interview
We talk to one of the leaders in indoor location technology using Bluetooth Beacons, Pointr Labs' COO Chris...
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