Location-Based Services

We all know the struggle: you arrive at a large, sprawling hotel, your luggage in tow, and all you want to do is find your room and unwind.

The digital patient experience is at the forefront of the global shift happening in the healthcare industry and it offers several benefits for healthcare providers.

Digital front doors today are the keys that give access to services. They have revolutionized how we access different services and are becoming more essential now that services are transitioning [...]

According to a recent report on Edutechnica.com, more than 700 U.S. universities and colleges have implemented at least one mobile application. Large schools tend to have multiple apps, while [...]

In the mobile world, we’re all a bit guilty of focusing on the next shiny object. Here's why your attention should be focused on a winning mobile strategy instead.

We’ve written quite a lot on how mobile wayfinding helps people find their way around busy, confusing environments, like airport terminals and hospitals. Having a personal digital navigator [...]

Remember back in the Dark Ages before we could set reminders on our phones? If you’re anything like me, you were probably leaving yourself a voicemail saying “Don’t forget to [...]

If you weren’t able to join us at the 2018 National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show, you missed out on Cisco’s super-cool Toy Box, a fully functional toy store right on the floor of [...]

The Department of Energy forecasts LED lighting will comprise about 30% of U.S. lighting installations by 2020. By 2035, LEDs are predicted to make up more than 85% of all lighting stock in the [...]

Virtualization has been around the computing world for more than a decade now. For the non-techies (or even the sorta-techies) among us, virtualization basically means using software to make one [...]

So you’ve decided to launch a branded hospital app. Congratulations! Whether you are working with an internal development team or a third-party provider like Phunware, launching an app [...]

The rise in beacon use is causing some concern and speculation among consumers. These fears are not unusual. New technologies often cause concern, which tends to dissipate as users become more [...]

Beacons play an important role in mobile location detection. When you think of a beacon, what comes to mind? A fire on a remote mountain? A blinking light at the top of a building? A lighthouse? [...]

While BLE (now called BlueTooth Smart) hardware beacons have been in the market for quite some time, the location-based marketing world shifted when Apple released a standard they call iBeacon. [...]