Describe your product's design and/or technological innovation.
HID Location Services provides organizations with visibility into the precise, real-time location of their workforce in a building, enabling organizations to analyze building and room usage to optimize facility management and operational efficiency. Powered by Bluetooth Low Energy and cloud-based technologies, the proximity-based and real-time location services deliver unprecedented accuracy and range by employing unique geo-fences that can monitor a person’s presence in a specific area, and capture the history of movement and dwell-time for better predictive analysis.
The new solution consists of a cloud service, portals, and Bluetooth beacons in the form of HID smart cards, all of which enable a better, more valuable analysis of building use. Since HID beacons are available in an easily recognizable and convenient smart card form factor, a single card can be used for both location services and access control for a unified management model.
The solution also easily integrates with existing building management systems as Software Development Toolkits (SDKs) are available to empower partners and developers to integrate HID location services into their own mobile apps. The SDKs open new opportunities for partners to be able to turn Android and iOS mobile apps into personal beacons.
Describe the three most important functional features of this product. What sets it apart from other products in this category?
Powerful real-time location analytics in a flexible cloud platform: Allows enterprises to leverage a real-time analysis of its building and area usage in order to justify the number of rooms or buildings required to operate a successful business.
Superior accuracy: Uses a combination of BLE and a powerful location engine to determine the specific location of personnel. By combining smart firmware on the beacons that transmit custom messages, smart firmware on BLE/WiFi gateways and advanced algorithms in the cloud, the solution achieves accuracy greater than one-meter.
Easy to implement: HID Global’s cloud-based solution eliminates the need for wired hardware.
Describe the benefits that your product provides to the integrator, including value if applicable.
Both Android and Apple iOS SDKs enable partners to quickly integrate HID Location Services into their own mobile apps allowing for the mobile app to be turned into a personal beacon for easy identification.
For successful partner integrations, HID Global also provides the Technology Partner Service (TPS), an onboarding and certification service to facilitate seamless integration of App/Portal SDKs. This service is designed to assist partners seeking to integrate HID into their solution offerings. TPS engagement starts with an evaluation of integration requirements and provides assistance to support and validate integration efforts until service launch.
HID Location Services
Category
Access Control
Description
HID Global
HID Location Services
$30.00 per card (Bluetooth Beacon) and $45.00 per gateway. The cloud service component is offered by subscription.
Winner Status
- Winner
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