It’s often the case that rolling out beacons for a particular purpose allows them to be put to other unrelated uses. Take, for example, one of our customers, a hospital, who wanted to roll out a network of beacons to allow wayfinding by patients.<\/p>\n
Beyond this initial remit, having beacons placed along corridors allowed them to be re-used for asset tracking. Also, the data from both will allow people and asset movement to be monitored to work out choke points as well as ‘wasted’ areas where nothing happens.<\/p>\n
If you think wider than your initial requirement it’s often possible to find extra usecases and identify extra stakeholders who might even be able to help cross-fund the initial requirement.<\/p>\n
Update:<\/strong> Just after we wrote this, we became aware, via Mr Beacon<\/a>, that SNCF have a competition<\/a> to make best use of their beacon network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s often the case that rolling out beacons for a particular purpose allows them to be put to other unrelated uses. Take, for example, one of our customers, a hospital, who wanted to roll out a network of beacons to allow wayfinding by patients. Beyond this initial remit, having beacons placed along corridors allowed them … Continue reading “Beacon Network Effects”<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702"}],"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=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2708,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/2708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}