Verve adds iBeacon micro location technology
Verve add iBeacon micro location technology to their market-leading Community Panel App – allowing a whole raft of new research opportunities in the retail environment.
Apple’s iBeacon technology has been incorporated into the Verve Community Panel members App.
This bluetooth based technology allows Verve to track members as they travel into and around iBeacon fitted stores – a development which is being rolled out by leading retailers for marketing purposes. Verve is one of the first, if not the first, to utilize this resource for scalable research purposes.
When a Verve Community Panel member enters a client’s store, their Verve App detects the in-store iBeacons and the member’s exact location (down to aisle level). This data can then be used to trigger a range of activies such as preloaded surveys on their mobile devices based upon where they are/have been in the store, how long they remained in a given area and the journey they have taken through the store – amongst many other things!
As Verve also hold – with clear permission – members’ purchase behaviour for many of their retail clients it is also possible to link the journey taken with actual purchase data – or not, in the case of abandoned journeys.
Georgina Botting – Director at Verve and retail research specialist states “iBeacon technology, teamed with our Research App and purchase data, opens up a huge number of opportunities for our retail clients. It allows us to conduct shopper research that is not only more accurate and more scalable than current methodologies, but that is also far more cost- effective and quick to interpret, making high quality shopper research much more widely accessible.”
iBeacons make use of Bluetooth Low Emissions (BLE) technology to communicate between the Verve App and the iBeacons, meaning that the detriment to battery life associated with GPS technology is no longer a problem. While BLE Technology sits at the heart of iOS, it has also been adopted by Android and all other major platforms.
Jon Gumbrell – Verve’s CTO – states “BLE and iBeacon technology are
set to be widely adopted by marketers and consumers alike as both gain true benefits from their use. At Verve we are at the forefront of enabling this technology to provide benefit for the research industry too.”
About VERVE
Verve was founded in 2008 as a specialist in Community Panels for research, winning the Market Research Society’s Best New Agency in 2010, and being defined as a Gartner Cool Company and “One to Watch” in 2012.
Verve is unique in that it provides a full service end-to-end Community Panel research proposition. Not only do Verve provide the Community Panel platform, but also all services around that from Community Panel management through to full service research – quant, qual, online, offline and on mobile. Verve’s research team fully support the generation of insight to empower better decision making for clients.
Verve is powered by VERVE Engine, the best-in-class technology and services platform for efficient, flexible and scalable Community Panels for research.
Verve is online at www.addverve.com
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