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There was a lot of interest in BLE beacons a couple of years back for retail displays and the like. But as you say beacons don’t really work all that well, people had to install apps, etc. and the whole space seems to have sort of fizzled. The wireless beacons also don’t really have good enough battery life for a lot of applications. I played around with some of this stuff but it wasn’t good enough for anything practical that I was interested in.

I wish there was a way to do better phone tracking but it’s hard to come up with a system that would be fast and reliable if you left your phone down somewhere while not driving you crazy with false alarms on a day to day basis.