Kontakt.io beacon hardware and software company(techcrunch.com)
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Kontakt.io beacon hardware and software company
http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/28/kontakt-io/
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Their product is nice, but I'm waiting for it to improve. It isn't so much the functionality, but the quality of iBeacon itself. It rattles if you shake it, unlike any other Beacons we've tested. There isn't much weight to it and there is tons a wasted space. I know these things shouldn't be heavy, but they should feel like a nice product. I'd prefer not to be locked into their system, but I understand why they do it. My company has just preferred working with Accent Systems, but if Kontakt becomes less restrictive then we would reconsider them.
That seems to be the problem right now with most iBeacon makers, too much proprietary stuff out there. I think iBeacons can really take off if there were more open standards across the board.
Not to be confused with audio software plugin with the same name - http://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/sampl...
Congratulations to the team! Heard many good things about kontakt.io - we're about to testdrive various BLE vendors for an assistance platform for the elderly and will certainly give them a shot.
Great. Lmk if I can facilitate an intro. You'd be joining a great list of customers: http://kontakt.io/our-customers/
Does Native Instruments have a problem with the name?
I really would love to see full-BLE enabled devices (GATT etc).
Edit: I stumbled upon the following sentence: "Once setup, Beacons will continuously broadcast a signal (similar to a radio station) to create a mesh network connected to our platform and API."
Is a bunch of emitting beacons _really_ a mesh network?