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Auracast location profile: Saint Gilbert Catholic Church

From https://assistivelisteningknowledgebase.org/evidence/bluetooth-sig-2026-saint-gilbert-profile/ · record checked 13 October 2026

  • Bluetooth SIG
  • Bluetooth SIG (Auracast website)

Trade body (Bluetooth SIG marketing material; the SIG is an industry association funded by its member companies and owns the Auracast trademark; the transmitters and the existing loop are both from Ampetronic | Listen Technologies)

Summary

A profile of a parish in Grayslake, Illinois, that kept its hearing loop and added Auracast transmitters in its church and chapel.

Key findings

  • Reports that the parish's existing Ampetronic hearing loop had not fully resolved listeners' difficulties, and that its performance depended on how T-coil hearing aids or receivers were positioned.
  • Describes professionally designed Auri TX2N transmitters in the main church and the chapel that supplement the loop, which remains in use for current telecoil users.
  • Quotes the parish's sound system caretaker as saying that Auracast coverage is even and reaches areas beyond the loop's reach.
  • States that the parish had no confirmed Auracast users yet at the time of the profile.
  • The profile header labels this a professional installation; the Deployment section names Thunder Hearing and Sound as the company that surveyed both spaces and designed the system.

Limits

Promotional material from the trademark owner, based on the impressions of the parish's sound system caretaker. No measurements of either system, attendance denominator or observation interval. Its statement of no confirmed Auracast users does not establish zero listening. Neither the archived readable page nor its HTML establishes a publication date; the previously recorded 19 February 2026 could not be verified.

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Bluetooth SIG. Auracast location profile: Saint Gilbert Catholic Church. Bluetooth SIG (Auracast website). n.d. https://www.bluetooth.com/auracast/auracast-location-profile-saint-gilbert-catholic-church/ (accessed 13 October 2026).

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