Transport for NSW seeks new uses for Bluetooth beacons
Transport for NSW wants people to suggest new uses for Bluetooth beacons it has deployed at the Chatswood train station and bus interchange in Sydney.
Transport for NSW wants people to suggest new uses for Bluetooth beacons it has deployed at the Chatswood train station and bus interchange in Sydney.
Although Australian startup Bluedot Innovation counts SMBs among its customers, co-founder Filip Eldic said the intention has always been to develop a cloud platform that could location services to enterprises.
Australian startup Bluedot is expanding into the US after raising $2.5 million in its latest funding round.
As organisations seek to leverage the vast amounts of data they collect to better inform their business decisions, the use of location-related data has increasingly spread beyond dedicated geospatial teams and into the broader enterprise, according to Nathan Bennett.
Australian startup Art Processors – founded by the team behind the technology used at Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) – is preparing to launch a low-cost indoor positioning system based on Apple's iBeacon specification.
The New South Wales government has launched a new strategy to encourage the use by the public and private sectors of geospatial datasets created by government agencies.
While some may fear wearable technologies such as Google Glass could make people less human, entrepreneur and Esri director Amber Case believes they actually free people to be more human.
Yahoo has bought Koprol.com, an Indonesian mobile location-based-services Web company similar to Foursquare in the U.S.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (AMCA) has released a discussion paper proposing to improve location information from mobile phones in emergencies.