A couple weeks ago, I received a package in the mail from Project Beacon with the Google’s Mountain View, California address on it. When I opened it up, I found a beacon and some instructions on how to set it up. I did not yet set it up, but I dug deeper into it. No one was talking about it until this past week. I spotted a number of posted about it on Twitter just this past week, all asking what this is about.
Here is the box it came in:
Here is the beacon itself:
Here is the package contents, with the instructions:
The help document leads to this page which describes why Google is doing this beacon project:
It also explained why some businesses are getting these beacons out of the blue:
Beacons do provide more pinpoint accuracy of a user’s location, espesially when indoors.
Did you get one of these?
