{"id":1900,"date":"2017-08-15T13:13:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2017-08-15T13:13:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:13:27","slug":"how-does-using-beacons-for-tracking-compare-with-the-use-of-rfid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/how-does-using-beacons-for-tracking-compare-with-the-use-of-rfid\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does Using Beacons for Tracking Compare with the Use of RFID?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main difference between beacons and RFID is the range. RFID only works up to 1m while beacons typically reach 50m to 100m, even more for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/UltraLongRange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">specialist beacons<\/a>. It&#8217;s also possible to get an indication of distance to the beacon whereas with RFID it&#8217;s just &#8216;seen&#8217; or &#8216;not seen&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>RFID tags are less expensive than beacons. However, as the range of beacons is much larger, fewer readers are required thus compensating for the extra cost. It&#8217;s also possible to totally cover a much larger area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main difference between beacons and RFID is the range. RFID only works up to 1m while beacons typically reach 50m to 100m, even more for specialist beacons. It&#8217;s also possible to get an indication of distance to the beacon whereas with RFID it&#8217;s just &#8216;seen&#8217; or &#8216;not seen&#8217;. RFID tags are less expensive than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/how-does-using-beacons-for-tracking-compare-with-the-use-of-rfid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Does Using Beacons for Tracking Compare with the Use of RFID?&#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":[151,29,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900"}],"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=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}