{"id":2462,"date":"2018-06-05T15:54:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T15:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2018-06-05T15:56:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T15:56:05","slug":"beacon-within-existing-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacon-within-existing-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacon Within Existing Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a trend for beacons becoming parts of <strong>existing<\/strong> systems rather than being the main reason for having a system. The two way radio admin system (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/motorola-radios-and-ibeacons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from Motorola<\/a>) was one of the early examples. Newer examples are smart desk\/meeting room systems, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/blindsquare-and-beacons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BlindSquare<\/a>\u00a0for navigation and (<a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.meraki.com\/MR\/Bluetooth\/Bluetooth_Low_Energy_(BLE)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cisco Meraki<\/a>) WiFi access points.<\/p>\n<p>Middleware used to create systems is also increasingly including support for beacons. An example is <a href=\"https:\/\/mobilefirstplatform.ibmcloud.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/09\/beacon-support-in-mobilefirst-foundation-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IBM&#8217;s MobileFirst Foundation service<\/a> that has recently provided for beacons via a MobileFirst Adapter. This allows you to easily use beacons within mobile apps with data being stored in the IBM Cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a trend for beacons becoming parts of existing systems rather than being the main reason for having a system. The two way radio admin system (from Motorola) was one of the early examples. Newer examples are smart desk\/meeting room systems, BlindSquare\u00a0for navigation and (Cisco Meraki) WiFi access points. Middleware used to create systems is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacon-within-existing-systems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beacon Within Existing Systems&#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":[68,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462"}],"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=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}