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Bob Friday's role within wireless communications over the past 30 years has been nothing short of pivotal. He was chief scientist with metro-scale wireless pioneer Metricom (the Ricochet network), co-founder and chief scientist with enterprise Wi-Fi powerhouse Airespace (acquired by Cisco), vice president and CTO with Cisco, and now CTO and co-founder at Mist Systems.
Mist is also an enterprise-class Wi-Fi supplier, focusing on bringing the benefits of machine learning to contemporary Wi-Fi solutions, but Friday has been especially hard at work on inventing and bringing to market virtual BLE beacons.
Mist's implementation builds virtual beacons directly into Wi-Fi access points, so the beacons themselves...