What if we lived in a world where as soon as you made your way downstairs, your coffee maker would start brewing your favorite cup of joe to greet you in the kitchen? Better yet, what if you’re running late, and want to know the moment your child’s home safe without skipping a beat on building your presentation for tomorrow’s board meeting?<\/p>\n
The future’s right around the corner with Signul<\/a>, the product that ‘lets you create micro location zones that can automate and simplify day-to-day life that triggers actions when you enter or exit these zones’.<\/p>\n Co-Founder Trent Shumay and his team are building the world’s first personal beacon system that sends event prompts to your smartphone. While they’re set to publicly launch early 2015, don’t let being a young product fool you. They’ve already begun making a name for themselves with coverage from the likes of Product Hunt, BetaKit, and even had a little camera time on CNBC’s\u00a0Tech Crowd<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Regardless of how much experience or exposure a team and concept may garner, there are still obstacles Trent and Co. had to overcome and will have to face in the future to position themselves the best way possible. I had a chance to connect with Trent to talk all things Signul, including where they began and the path they’re making the trek on:<\/p>\n TS: We\u2019ve been building core IoT technologies for about a year. Bluetooth Low Energy is one of our favourite technologies for a number of reasons, but the biggest one being it\u2019s intrinsic connectivity with smartphones. We began by building a commercial variant of our beacon technology, but we were having a lot of fun using beacons for our own entertainment and utility as developers. We realized that nobody was really focused on bringing this experience to consumers, and that there were a lot things that consumers might use beacons for, so the idea of Signul was born.<\/p>\n Signul itself, as a product is about 4 months old. We were able to leverage a lot of our technology and know-how on the app and cloud side to bring something new to life quite quickly.<\/p>\nSo how’d Signul come about and how long have you been working on this?<\/h3>\n