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Aislelabs
Company blog · aislelabs.com/blogsystemshardwarebusiness
Aislelabs is the company blog at aislelabs.com, writing about systems, hardware and business. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Aislelabs as an example of in-store foot-traffic tracking, which retailers use to follow how customers move through their stores. Comments cite its posts and product pages as examples.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Aislelabs is guest WiFi marketing and WiFi analytics software for venues. Capture guest data, measure foot traffic and grow revenue with your WiFi.
What Hacker News says?
Most big retailers use this tech already to track how customers walk through their stores. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264822934_Mining_of... https://www.aislelabs.com/blog/2022/04/04/combining-camera-a... There's lots of other examples, this was just a quick google search.
Comment linking /blog/2022/04/04/combining-camera-and-wifi-data-for-360-visitor-analytics/
on “Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?”Submitted Modernizing the Tech Stack for a B2B SaaS Product Running on Bare Metal as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIf you want to learn more about some of the platforms out there: https://www.getblix.com/retail-foot-traffic https://www.aislelabs.com/products/flow/ https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Monitoring_and_Reporting...
Comment linking /products/flow/
on “Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech”Submitted The Hitchhikers Guide to iBeacon Hardware as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted IBeacon Battery Drain on Apple vs. Android: A Technical Report as a story · 5 points
HN discussion