Posts by: Alexander Saftschuk
Published: 11.05.2022
How social distance monitoring supported a safe Eurovision Song Contest during the pandemic TechnologyProximity IndustryEvents Use caseSocial Distance Monitoring, Safety In 2021 Forkbeard and its partners helped to monitor social distancing at the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), as well as provide interaction data for Fieldlab’s research purposes. Technology deployment at a glance The situation The […]
Published: 04.05.2022
Hello, Forkbeard: Meet Elisabeth!
Elisabeth, who are you? Hi, I am Elisabeth and the Executive Assistant at Forkbeard/Sonitor. I was born and raised in Oslo, and apart from a year in Denmark, this is where I have lived since. Now I am well established at Oppsal with my 6 year old son and husband. What did you do before […]
Published: 27.04.2022
Closing the data gap between in-store and digital retail
Forkbeard helps physical retailers to better understand their customers’ preferences and subsequently optimize stores through granular insights, levelling the playing field between physical and online retailers. Physical retail, from Goliath to David Over the past two decades we have seen physical retail change from Goliath to David. Pre-pandemic grocery stores were the last major category […]
Published: 20.04.2022
Hello, Forkbeard: Meet Henrik!
Henrik, who are you? Hi, I am Henrik a Customer Success Engineer at Forkbeard. I’ve been born in Japan and only a few months old we moved to South Korea for a few years before heading back to Norway. Just a few years later we decided we hadn’t had enough of South Korea, so back […]
Published: 31.03.2022
How Forkbeard’s COO sent 15 tons of clothing for Ukraine’s draftees in 12 days
On the left is a picture of our COO Kristen speaking to Wladimir Klitschko. On the right is the reason he is speaking to Wladimir. And below is the story behind the two pictures and how Kristen raised over NOK 4m and sent 15 tons of military clothing into Ukraine within 12 days, despite being […]
Published: 04.05.2021
Data Privacy. Choosing an indoor positioning technology
This post is part of the “Choosing an indoor positioning technology” series. The series aims to help anybody evaluating and buying Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) to ask the right questions and make better informed decisions. This post focuses on Data Privacy. If you are only after the core message and evaluation criteria, you can skip ahead and simply focus on […]
Published: 15.04.2021
Scalability. Choosing an indoor positioning technology
This post is part of the “Choosing an indoor positioning technology” series. The series aims to help anybody evaluating and buying Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) to ask the right questions and make better informed decisions. This post focuses on Scalability. If you are only after the core message and evaluation criteria, you can skip ahead and simply focus on the […]
Published: 06.04.2021
Reliability. Choosing an indoor positioning technology
This post is part of the “Choosing an indoor positioning technology” series. The series aims to help anybody evaluating and buying Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) to ask the right questions and make better informed decisions. This post focuses on Reliability. If you are only after the core message and evaluation criteria, you can skip ahead […]
Published: 23.03.2021
Accuracy. Choosing an indoor positioning technology
This post is part of the “Choosing an indoor positioning technology” series. The series aims to help anybody evaluating and buying Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) to ask the right questions and make better informed decisions. This post focuses on Accuracy. If you are only after the core message and evaluation criteria, you can skip ahead […]
Published: 16.03.2021
Leveraging social distancing tech to reopen Delft University
Covid-19 having a severe negative impact on the travel and hospitality industry is no surprise. However, an industry which might not come directly to one’s mind is education. We have previously written about universities, their need to reopen and their different pandemic response measures. If you have missed that post, you can find it here. The mental well-being of students and the universities financial pressures are main drivers to […]