While the Xbox Companion lets you fire up and control media and set beacons (alerting you when friends are playing certain games, so you can drop everything and get some headshots), it's by no means a replacement for your actual controller.
Another area where 2lemetry has been developing products is in using its platform for commercial deployments such as retail environments where, for example, a merchant might use a network of beacons to alert shoppers on their phones to offers and other messages.
The use of strategically placed beacons could alert the manager if there is a high to low ratio of customers to employees in specific areas of the store, allowing them to message associates to better disperse or relieve long checkout lines.
Atkins Alert Beacon Restaurant and Bar will hold an all-you-can-eat beefsteak dinner with crab meat, steaks, lamb chops and more on Nov. 4 at 6 30 p.m.
In addition, beacons could send alerts to members of staff when a task (eg checking if an area of heavy traffic needs re-stocking) needs to be carried out, monitor how long each should take, and identify how staff split their time between the stock room and shop floor.
The second drawback is if a node cannot receive a beacon after an alert message, so it is assumed as a misbehaviour, but sometimes, honest cannot send beacons due to bad signal.
That way, the army of beacons sends only relevant alerts about promotions, deals and desirable products, as the shopper strolls the streets.
The pocket-sized tracking beacons of Amber Alert GPS, a company based in Utah, carry a microphone to let parents eavesdrop.
We need the Museum not only to commemorate the past but to stand as a beacon, a rallying cry to alert and sensitize the world to genocides and other atrocities that are perpetrated in our own times, whether in Darfur or Rwanda, in Srebrenica or, today, in the Middle East.
Or customized alerts to your smartphone through beacon technology, to send you relevant coupons and reminders while you're browsing in a pharmacy.
