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From: Jim Carter <jimc@math.ucla.edu>
To: BlueZ development <bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] multi-frequency scanning & possible contract work
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:33:29 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710310909510.769@simba.math.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <307f591f0710301305n410b8ebds4fa399dd0a518840@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Paul Huber wrote:

> I need to use a directional antenna focused on an area about 6 meters x 6
> meters that can scan for Bluetooth mobile phones as they pass through the
> area, and identify them very quickly.  It's for a new startup business
> that's focusing on a retail application running on an embedded Linux box.

Since you're using non-provincial units I assume you're in the European 
Union, but in the USA there's a specific reg forbidding cellphone spam.  
Pro-actively dialling the customer's phone could well give a hostile 
impression.  A customer-initiated interaction such as WAP is a lot more 
polite, but the shopkeeper would want to make it available to everyone 
including those looking through the window.

If the technical and regulatory issues can be straightened out, it would be 
very valuable to both the customer and the business to provide a product 
search feature, tech specs for products, etc.  All the advantages of online 
shopping, but you can look at the physical product and buy it on the spot.

James F. Carter          Voice 310 825 2897    FAX 310 206 6673
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-31 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-30 20:05 [Bluez-devel] multi-frequency scanning & possible contract work Paul Huber
2007-10-30 20:23 ` Brad Midgley
2007-10-31  3:59   ` Paul Huber
2007-10-31  9:02 ` Matthias Becker
2007-10-31 10:55   ` Peter Wippich
2007-10-31 16:33 ` Jim Carter [this message]
2007-10-31 16:52 ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-10-31 17:06   ` Peter Wippich

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