This summer
I was playing around two potential-to-be-disruptive-topics. The first one was
about BLE technology.The second was about graph
databases.
It wasn’t
until the middle of august that I realized that they were strongly connected!
Destiny,
luck, serendipity, Touristology’s voice talking to me???
Ibeacons appeared
on my radar not so long ago. I shared with you a video in twitter
With this
message “iBeacon with privacy and Versions of Me… Success!!! Without them…. a
nightmare!!!! Geo-location at its best!!!”
Then,
google make its own movement with Eddystone
I find very
interesting the vision that they share in this website.
“The number
of smart devices is going to explode, and the assumption that each new device
will require its own application just isn't realistic. We need a system that
lets anyone interact with any device at any time. ”….” Once any smart device
can have a web address, the overhead of a dedicated app is no longer required
for simple interactions. The Physical Web approach unlocks use cases that would
never be practical if a dedicated app were required:
A cat
collar can let you call to find the owner
A bus can
tell you its next stop
A parking
meters can pay in the cloud
Any store,
no matter how small, can offer an online experience when you walk in
A shared
car service can broadcast a signup page, allowing you to immediately drive away
Industrial equipment can offer diagnostics”
What about
using a Graph Data Base?
Can beacons
be aggregated because they have been connected with THIS Tourist / On this
trip?
Can beacons
be aggregated because they have been connected with THIS Version of Me?
Can People
/Organizations be aggregated because they have been connected with THIS Tourist / on this trip?
Ibeacons
/eddystone in your hotel? In your Tourism destination? Of course! But, you know
me… As with almost anything… use/put them through all your chain of value!
As
Touristologistly, we always say “We have to achieve that all departments work as
a single organization and our chains of value working as a single enterprise”
We saw and
interesting evolution in the Property Management System’s field and its slow
transformation from a PMS to a CVMS here
So, to
summarize….
Smartcities?
Smartspaces? Smartareas?... SMARTChainofValue!
I love
Touristology’s games!!!
