Hi Sandy, Thanks for the explanation and the belief that I'm not often confused, grin. Sieghard had found information on their web site, which I didn't think to go investigate. I kind of assumed that it would have been in the app store description. But, yes, bluetooth beacons have been around for several years now. I just wish all the different approaches would come together into one standard. Blind Square was one of the earlier apps that I recall having worked out navigating this way for indoor navigation, though there were others before them. Now the American Printing House for the Blind is working on them and these Right Hear folks, etc. I know mainly that the United States is way behind other countries in adopting this kind of technology. However, some airports have begun using them. I had read about San Francisco having 500 beacons in one of their terminals so that a person who is visually impaired with the right app, (no memory of which app) could even find an outlet to recharge their devices. I think this would be perfect for places like museums, etc. I know some malls have them, and maybe one day they will be more wide spread. Later, Richard
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How would this differ from a wireless door bell system? Andy and Shubert From: 'Sandy Tomkins' via VIPhone<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2019 4:55 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: the right hear app Richard, (the often confused? Close brackets never! I understand that the labels are real and not virtual. if I remember correctly, as I was researching this about a year ago, but got distracted by other technologies along the way, The initial idea was to implement these tags by way of consenting businesses/services et cetera, to make public spaces more navigable. I asked them if I, as an individual, could obtain beacons and implement them for myself. they thought this would be possible, but then I moved onto other things and forgot about it. by the way, my current and most favourite toy is the Sunu band. this works with Sonar rather than Bluetooth. but back to RightHear, they are very approachable, and seek to get new partners to work with, in different countries. I will take a trawl through my zillions of old emails, never deleted, and see if I can find some of my old correspondence. but the main thing is this, in theory at least, this solution is much more accurate and is much more suitable for micro navigation, such as that which was raised in the original email, to find trees, postboxes, gates et cetera, Than GPS. We do seem to be in a particular point in time when many potential solutions abound, but none are quite perfected. Potential is exciting, but actuality is much more satisfying! Sandy. 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