{"id":1954,"date":"2017-09-11T13:18:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T13:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2023-05-05T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T08:34:11","slug":"beacons-in-metro-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacons-in-metro-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacons in Metro Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrailnews.com\/2017\/09\/11\/mtr-trials-bluetooth-beacon-navigation-at-one-of-its-stations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article today at Global Rail News<\/a> on how MTR, who run the Hong Kong metro, is trialling Bluetooth beacon navigation at Admiralty Station.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As well as helping customers navigate the station itself, one of the new features, \u201cFast Exit\u201d, will tell passengers which train car and door number to board when they set off on their journey in order to be closest to the exit at their destination station.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The pilot is part of MTR\u2019s Rail Gen 2.0 programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new article today at Global Rail News on how MTR, who run the Hong Kong metro, is trialling Bluetooth beacon navigation at Admiralty Station. &#8220;As well as helping customers navigate the station itself, one of the new features, \u201cFast Exit\u201d, will tell passengers which train car and door number to board when they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacons-in-metro-stations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beacons in Metro Stations&#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":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954"}],"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=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8682,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/8682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}