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Not quite used for in-store advertising, but Google's "Nearby Messages API" does use "near-ultrasound" audio signals to communicate with other devices: https://developers.google.com/nearby/messages/overview. I don't know if it would work at a larger scale, though (maybe you couldn't allow dogs in your store!).





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