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by mrjlu 2383 days ago
How is the tech different from https://www.wiliot.com/ and how did you guys manage to be first to market as I thought they were the pioneers of the ultra-thin thin bluetooth stickers?
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Absolutely - you can buy ours today and we'll ship tomorrow!

I guess we haven't been very vocal about what we're doing, we wanted to have something that worked and was tested before shouting about it.

> We have a very small power source inside our labels - this gives us a range of 20m+.

> Williot don't have a battery and I imagine instead reflect signals. Having previously worked in the RF energy harvesting space I would imagine their range is at best 3ft.

And so while their tech is extremely cool (provided it works, once burnt twice shy as they say) it's a different use case.

follow up question - does it need at least a few active users to triangulate the sticker position or would 1 user be enough?

if so, how are you able to determine location from a single bluetooth beacon and user? I know for example the tile app will only tell you how far you are from the tile as opposed to the position of the tile.