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Purple Recognized as a Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Indoor Location Services
Company achieves recognition for the third consecutive year Purple, the intelligent spaces company, today announced its recognition as a Visionary in the 2024
What is Asset Tracking?
Asset tracking is a method businesses use to keep tabs on their physical assets, such as equipment, vehicles, and inventory. It involves tagging assets
Real-Time Location Services
What is a Real-Time Location System (RTLS)? A Real-Time Location System (RTLS) is a technology that identifies and tracks the location of objects and people in
What is WiFi RTLS and How Does It Work?
RTLS operates by tagging objects or individuals with devices that emit signals. These signals are then captured by a network of receivers that calculate the tag
Accessibility Essentials for Real-Time Location Services
Navigating unfamiliar places can be a challenge for everyone, and more so for those with accessibility needs. Finding suitable routes to access a venue
Intelligent Healthcare: How real-time location services benefit patient experiences and boost hospital efficiency
95% of hospitals are planning to increase their utilization of real-time locating technology. By implementing additional solutions, healthcare facilities will
What are Indoor Location Services? Updated for 2023
Indoor location services allow for the tracking of people and objects within a set space through the combination of hardware and software technologies.
Location Analytics & Services: How They Can Increase Revenue
The first commercial GPS was released in 1990 as a revolutionary built-in feature for the Mazda Eunos Cosmo, and yet in 2021 we can order an Uber through a
Automating your visitor count, achieving 98% people counting accuracy
Manually counting people in and out is an inefficient way to collect visitor numbers - in addition, many venues are having to hire additional staff members
5 interesting uses for location technology
Location-based love Proximity-based social networking is becoming the norm and there has recently been a shift toward app development to help us widen our
WiFi or beacons for location-based services?
Location-based services are now the norm. From GPS to Google Maps on our phones, we all understand that our devices can communicate with satellites or other
WiFi presence analytics explained
Presence Analytics seen using WiFi Analytics reporting bridges the gap between Google Analytics and the real world, offering real-time data and reporting using
Meraki launches presence analytics API
As a Meraki Technology Partner we were very excited when we got our hands on the presence API several weeks ago. This is something we have been doing with our
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