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title: Beacon Meeting

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# Beacon Meeting

## Automatic tracking
### Pros
- Selling a lot of licenses
- No hardware needed
### Cons
- Extremely hard to implement
- Never going to be 100% accurate because leaving the GPS sensor on with highest accuracy eats up the battery. So we have to guess when to collect more data
- We would need to track the user constantly and let the user approve what a "real" trip. 
- Users could forget to approve their real trips
- If we filter the data automatically, it's also very hard to do and we end up with having a lot of very private data of people on our servers

## Tracking with iBeacons
### Pros
- Very reliable, if a beacon is close, we definitely know the user is driving his car at the moment
### Cons
- You need to buy iBeacon devices
- Device distribution problem

## Things to do
- Arne: Berlin bicycle tracking app that people use to collect data for the government. https://www.stadtradeln.de/home