In a very share-able article on Forbes, Greg Petro – President and CEO of First Insight – predicted that 2015 is the year that highlights beacon technology advancement – in how businesses employ the technology, and also in how customers embrace it. Up to 2015, beacon technology sales was valued at about $4 billion (€3.5 billion). Professionals and investors are having high hopes in this technology.
So, how is it really going? To give you a better overview of ongoing beacon developments, we present this list of 5 mind-blowing feats done (or soon will be) by companies and organizations from different industries in 2016.
- Safeguarding Firefighters with Beacon Wearables
- Helping the Visually Impaired with Public Transportation
- Wayfinding in International Airports
- Tracking and Inspecting Assets at Hospitals
- Google I/O 2016