Hi Adrian - always nice to hear from you ;) i've seen that. Yet, the Eddystone[1] project appears to [2] extend traditional GPS into something that's tied into Google API's for Indoor positioning systems [3] - without even considering the broader applications of the tech. A counter-argument could be that it's good to have a global gate-keeper - but that's not how wifi works? solution i'm hunting out looks like something that fits into the SoLiD[4] which i'm augmenting somewhat with Manu's (/ our) Credentials concepts. therein making discovery available via linked-data. enabling access via something like WebID-TLS or alternative, stored on LDP, by the purchaser / owner of the device (ie; could be the home-owner or dog-owner)... Tim.H. [1] https://developers.google.com/beacons/eddystone [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nYyApSiSLQ [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system [4] https://github.com/solid On Mon, 23 May 2016 at 22:01 Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com> wrote: > 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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