Waze has announced that it’s expanding its Waze Beacon program to New York City tunnels today, working together with the MTA and Port Authority to improve navigation apps (including Waze, obviously) when underground. The changes start today, with Waze Beacons going live in the Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, Queens-Midtown Tunnel, and Hugh L. Carey (Brooklyn-Battery) Tunnel.
The Waze Beacons themselves are just battery-powered microcontrollers that use low-powered Bluetooth signals to communicate with smartphones, allowing for Waze to provide alternative location services to drivers even when out of GPS range (relying on Google’s near-field Eddystone technology to…
Written by Chaim Gartenberg
This news first appeared on https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/29/18202359/waze-beacons-nyc-tunnels-bluetooth-gps-apps-connectivity under the title “Waze adds Beacons to NYC tunnels so drivers can stay connected to GPS apps”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
