Bluetooth on buses

[Qwerty133]

When the Enderby park and ride site in Leicester first opened a big deal was made of the buses having Bluetooth on board. From memory all that the service enabled was the downloading of the very basic timetable to mobile devices (but if you're already on the bus its a bit late to get the timetable). Can anyone recall what the supposed benefit of this was as I really can't think of anything considering the typical use of bluetooth? Was this something that happened elsewhere or was it yet another idea of Leicester City Council that was a total waste of money?

 

[Mwanesh]

Do you mean wifi or bluetooth. Bluetooth normally needs passkeys to both devices.

 

[borage]

It was called Blue Onboard, and it looks like Velvet were the only other operator to take part: http://web.archive.org/web/20101015035612/http://blueonboard.com/press/default.htm

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This was a time when some phones didn't have Wi-Fi

 

[Qwerty133]

Do you mean wifi or bluetooth. Bluetooth normally needs passkeys to both devices.

Bluetooth, the usefulness of WiFi on buses is obvious. The need for passkeys and the fact that blue tooth is usually a 'push' rather than 'pull' technology when it comes to file sharing is the whole reason why the concept made no sense to me.

 

[Glasgowbusguy]

It's called bluetooth beacons these days retailers and that use them to push adverts or promotions straight to shoppers phones