Use Cases

Asset Tracking

Tag Vendors / Configuration Tag Vendors: Any tag vendor will work with Mist as long as the APs are able to detect the tags. Tag vendors we’ve worked with the most are: Blue vision, kontakt.io, and Radius Networks. Tag / Beacon Configuration: For configuration for both tags and beacons we recommend setting tags to >100...

Asset tracking at a large conference

This was a great example of using short life BLE tags to establish identity when the user registered to the conference and then use webhooks to off load the data to post process later with their own zone information.

Hybrid Use Case

This POC was very interesting.  This retail customer wanted way-finding in the ‘high shelf’ shopping areas, but if the client moves into the “soft-area’s” where things move around use zone analytics.  A ‘blue dot’ experience might be required if the customer came to the store looking for a specific item.  If not their device might...

Occupancy Analytics

Using the zones you set up in Location Live View, you can now set a limit for the number of clients allowed in each area on your map. Use this analytics page to see which areas in your site get overcrowded and enforce capacity limits for each of your Zones. This may be helpful for...

Proximity Alerting

Much about location started with battery beacons placed somewhere that would trigger a mobile app to do ‘something’ when you got close to it. So what is a “virtual beacon.”  In the Mist world the mobile devices have integrated the Mist SDK into the customers mobile app and as the app is running the x,y...