Re: iBeacon + LDP or ie: SoLiD

Check out the Physical Web project
http://google.github.io/physical-web/

On 22 May 2016 at 11:11, Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking into iBeacon technology and found the google offering [1]
> alongside the apple version.
>
> I'd rather have the infrastructure owned by the property owner and use
> linked-data more generically (rather than via service provider).  Any
> suggested links for existing solutions that are less service-provider /
> vendor tied?
>
> I also found the paypal beacon [2] which also looked interesting,
> pondering whether bluetooth ble's might be usable as a 2-part hardware
> token that people might carry on their keychains (amongst the many other
> uses)...
>
> Tim.H.
>
> [1] https://github.com/google/eddystone
> [2]
> http://blog.verifone.com/apple-ibeacon-paypal-beacon-and-ble-what-does-it-all-mean/
>
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