{"id":1118,"date":"2022-10-19T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2023-05-04T20:30:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:30:14","slug":"beacons-and-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacons-and-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacons and Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are seeing more and more customers using beacons in driving-related scenarios. Most are using beacons to trigger when the user gets into or out of a vehicle. For example, <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.driversnote.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">driversnote<\/a> tracks your trips ready for your mileage claim. However, apps such as this are for personal use and there&#8217;s a larger market and opportunity in company\/fleet management. For example, mileagecount has an automated mileage capture system based on beacons.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mileagecount.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mileagecount.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8017\" width=\"505\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mileagecount.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mileagecount-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 85vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The key thing here is that beacons are being used to trigger something, mileage capture in this case. It&#8217;s automated, unobtrusive and doesn&#8217;t necessarily produce app notifications. There&#8217;s a very large number of similar usecases in other industries waiting to be explored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are seeing more and more customers using beacons in driving-related scenarios. Most are using beacons to trigger when the user gets into or out of a vehicle. For example, driversnote tracks your trips ready for your mileage claim. However, apps such as this are for personal use and there&#8217;s a larger market and opportunity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacons-and-driving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beacons and Driving&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8635,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/8635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}