{"id":1904,"date":"2017-08-16T14:19:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T14:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2017-08-16T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T14:21:29","slug":"the-state-of-iot-and-beacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/the-state-of-iot-and-beacons\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of IoT (and Beacons)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mister-beacon.com\/blog\/the-state-of-the-iot-aidoo-osei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new video by Mr Beacon on the state of IoT<\/a>. It&#8217;s an interview with ex-Intel Aidoo Osei with insights on the business side of IoT.<\/p>\n<p>Aidoo talks of IoT being a technology searching for a meaningful problem people are willing to pay to solve. The important part is &#8216;pay&#8217;, as many initiatives such as smart cities require a thorough understanding of how these things might be financed. Also, for many IoT technology providers, there&#8217;s a tension between providing open, inter-operable systems and wanting to own the stack.<\/p>\n<p>Aidoo provides an upbeat view of beacons. He thinks beacons are simple at the moment because phones\/apps are more capable. As beacons become more used as components of IoT systems, there&#8217;s an opportunity for them to be more complex.<\/p>\n<p>While Aidoo didn&#8217;t mention this, one example of beacons becoming more complex is the use of mesh networking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting new video by Mr Beacon on the state of IoT. It&#8217;s an interview with ex-Intel Aidoo Osei with insights on the business side of IoT. Aidoo talks of IoT being a technology searching for a meaningful problem people are willing to pay to solve. The important part is &#8216;pay&#8217;, as many initiatives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/the-state-of-iot-and-beacons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The State of IoT (and Beacons)&#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":[9,157],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904"}],"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=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}