I’m trying to figure out if Beacons can be used to detect if a new customer enters a store for the first time? Would they need to have an app installed on their phone before the time in order to work? Can it also detect if the customer returns at a different time and display the last time they visited the store?
Also how would this information be transmitted? Does the beacon capture the data and send it to the store’s PC?
The monitoring technology can help you to detect when you enter/leave a region,
to receive the Estimote beacon’s signal, the phone needs an app’,
with an app’, you can save the last time the beacon was near the phone and remind it to the customer,
you have to make your phone send data to your database (with Internet, other Bluetooth device, …) because beacons only emit signals, they don’t store any information.
I just want to follow up on the above question as I have something related.
I want the store managers to know the number of visitors who entered their stores without the visitors downloading the apps, but rather beacon signals will be sent to one centralized app… is there anyway we can do this? Can beacons detect bluetooth of a visitors and provide an estimated real number?
the Estimote beacons are only emitting, you can’t (needs verification maybe) retrieve information. Think in the lighthouse metaphor, you don’t know if they are ships, you only signal your position (that’s why the Google protocol is named Eddystone ).