{"id":2102,"date":"2017-10-25T17:51:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T17:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2019-01-23T14:11:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T14:11:48","slug":"interview-with-ajay-malik-author-of-rtls-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/interview-with-ajay-malik-author-of-rtls-for-dummies\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Ajay Malik, author of RTLS for Dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Beacon has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3O4EoACfOlY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new interview with Ajay Malik<\/a>, the author of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/RTLS-Dummies-Ajay-Malik\/dp\/047039868X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RTLS for Dummies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It starts with a discussion that tries to define what&#8217;s a Real Time Location System (RTLS) in terms of the technologies that can be used. Ajay explains how he ended up working with RTLS and writing the book.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s discussion on business drivers and how RTLS relates to machine to machine (M2M) and IoT. Usecases mentioned include promotional marketing, asset tracking and autonomous navigation. There&#8217;s a useful explanation of trilateration, triangulation, angle of arrival, time of arrival and time distance of arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Ajay sees asset tracking as currently the most important application. However, going forward, RTLS will feed more into AI to provide context.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/BeaconForRTLS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about RTLS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Beacon has a new interview with Ajay Malik, the author of\u00a0RTLS for Dummies. It starts with a discussion that tries to define what&#8217;s a Real Time Location System (RTLS) in terms of the technologies that can be used. Ajay explains how he ended up working with RTLS and writing the book. There&#8217;s discussion on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/interview-with-ajay-malik-author-of-rtls-for-dummies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview with Ajay Malik, author of RTLS for Dummies&#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":[220,1,130],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102"}],"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=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3030,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}