Multifunctional interactive beacon with mobile device interaction

Abstract

A system and method for adapting the behavior of an interactive presence based application on a mobile computing device associated with a user, by providing a plurality of multifunctional beacons, where the plurality of beacons provide a mesh wireless network, where each of the plurality of beacons provides a local wireless connection, providing an OMS backend for management of the plurality of beacons, where the OMS backend runs on a server, connecting by the mobile device to one or both of the mesh network and a local network, where the plurality of beacons report the connecting to the OMS backend, determining by the OMS backend the proximity of the mobile device to one or more of the plurality of beacons based on the reported connections, and adapting the behavior of the application and/or the beacons based on the determined proximity.

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