{"id":1632,"date":"2017-05-11T17:50:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2017-05-11T17:53:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:53:34","slug":"cow-positioning-with-ibeacon-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/cow-positioning-with-ibeacon-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Cow Positioning with iBeacon Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-BNCoTKYlvY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video at YouTube<\/a> on the installation of Raspberry Pi based beacon detectors in a cow shed to detect the position of cows.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cowdetectors.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cowdetectors.png 630w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cowdetectors-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Beacon detectors<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cowbeacon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cowbeacon.png 562w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cowbeacon-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 562px) 85vw, 562px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Beacon on a cow<\/p>\n<p>Beacons can, in fact, do a lot more than just determine location. For example, it&#8217;s possible to track extra\u00a0things such as temperature, humidity and unexpected movement. In the cow shed case, hall effect beacon sensors\u00a0can be put on gates to alert when gates are open\/closed when they shouldn&#8217;t be. The location data can be used to provide geofencing to alert when things, people or animals enter or leave specific areas.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/BeaconForRTLS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLS) using beacons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a\u00a0video at YouTube on the installation of Raspberry Pi based beacon detectors in a cow shed to detect the position of cows. Beacon detectors Beacon on a cow Beacons can, in fact, do a lot more than just determine location. For example, it&#8217;s possible to track extra\u00a0things such as temperature, humidity and unexpected movement. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/cow-positioning-with-ibeacon-technology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cow Positioning with iBeacon Technology&#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":[101,31,130],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632"}],"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=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}