Big news from CEO of In Hand Guide - Beacons tech advance

Season 1, Episode 3416,   Sep 15, 2016, 09:46 AM

Conversation with Trevor Winckworth, CEO of In Hand Guides. Recorded in the Clayton Hotel Cork on Catching up on what's been happening over the last few months

(1) New beacon technology - takes over the player when you are on site - as you enter the 'room', the audio is triggered for you - "we range the beacons " -

(2) Spike Island - Ireland's Alcatraz - 40 "points of interest" - beacons. For example, Spike Island Riot Room - a beacon in every cell - stories - Republican prisoners - information points around the island -

(3) Patented the triggering technology - worldwide -

(4) From high-cost complex systems to low-cost simple system

(5) "De-mystify the whole thing"

(6) The audio is on the player - you can listen to the audio later -

(7) CIT [Cork Institute of Technology] Nimbus developed the system for us