Sentence examples for beacon for technology from inspiring English sources

American-born Ms Shields, who was previously a senior executive at Facebook and Bebo, was speaking as Tech City commissioned research on London's progress as a beacon for technology companies, to mark the third anniversary of the Tech City concept.

The key insight was to shift focus from inventing new technologies approximating the brain's neurons and synapses to inventing a new computer architecture with existing chip technology, which can then serve as a beacon for future technology development.

It's a market that's created a prosperity that is the envy of the world, and opportunity for generations of Americans; a market that has provided great rewards to innovators and risk-takers who've made America a beacon for science and technology and discovery.

Further, Japan has been a beacon for quality engineering of consumer-friendly high technology.

An analogy for beacon technology is GPS.

Instead of simply pushing offers to shoppers, Cheney's vision for beacon technology in retail involves blurring the lines between e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retail.

It takes advantage of the large number of deployed personal mobile devices and uses them as both mule sensors, in cooperation with beacon technology for geofecing, and clients for getting information about bus positions and estimated arrival times.

Combined with beacon and BLE technology, these technologies help to provide real-world shopping experiences inspired by tactics online.

Beacon technology is built-in for use with things like customer loyalty programs, or sending offers to mobile devices.

One option for retailers is to integrate beacon technology with popular third-party shopping apps such as PayPal or PriceChecker.

A project to probe the viability of using low power Bluetooth Beacon technology as an aid for indoor navigation — with a special focus on helping blind and visually impaired people get around independently — has been awarded a $1 million grant from Google.org to broaden and accelerate its development.