- Average duration of shopper visits
- Number of unique visitors
- Daypart concentration of visits
- Shopper recency and frequency
Location Analytics Provider Euclid Throws Down Gauntlet, Makes Product Free
Euclid is one of the better known indoor-analytics providers in a new but increasingly competitive and crowded segment. There are well over 150 companies involved directly or indirectly in “indoor location,” most of which have some sort of analytics component.
While some companies are closely identified with a particular technology (e.g., Estimote with BLE), most companies can use or do use multiple technologies to gain access to indoor smartphone positioning. It’s not unusual to find companies using at least two or three technologies such as WiFi + BLE. Euclid still relies on WiFi exclusively but will likely be expanding in the future to include BLE (assuming it continues to gain momentum).
This is comparable to how outdoor positioning and mapping relies on GPS, cell tower and WiFi triangulation as a hybrid approach to compensate for the limitations of each technology.
Today Euclid took a bold step by introducing a free indoor analytics product aimed at the mid-market (e.g., specialty retailers). It’s called Euclid Express and it’s mostly a self-service offering. Euclid co-founder Will Smith told me that during the beta period his company has enrolled more than 400 new customers. Competitors will undoubtedly see it as a “land grab.”
The product assumes an existing WiFi “infrastructure” in the store locations. If not Euclid will provide a low-cost WiFi set up.
The objective of Euclid Express is to remove friction and barriers to adoption — including price. It offers a range of indoor analytics data, including: