tisdag 27 december 2016

A new industry has sprung up selling “indoor-location” services to retailers

Some 200,000 shops around the world now have systems to track phones, including free Wi-Fi, according to ABI Research. The often-overlooked terms and conditions for Wi-Fi typically allow stores to see a shopper’s online search history as well as track their location. This can open up a “gold mine” of data, points out Dan Thornton of Hughes Europe, a network provider.
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Around a third of the 100 biggest American stores are experimenting with some mapping technology from either Google or Apple, says Nathan Pettyjohn of Aisle411, another indoor-positioning firm.



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