{"id":3243,"date":"2019-02-22T09:33:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2019-02-22T09:41:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:41:36","slug":"smart-cycling-helmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/smart-cycling-helmet\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Cycling Helmet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nordic have news of a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"new cycling helmet (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nordicsemi.com\/News\/2019\/02\/ANGi-sensor-based-device-transforms-cycling-helmet-using-nRF52832\" target=\"_blank\">new cycling helmet<\/a> with embedded nRF52 device, also used inside many beacons, that detects acceleration and in conjunction with an app, can send location and crash alerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/specialized2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/specialized2.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/specialized2-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 85vw, 420px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>While it&#8217;s an interesting and innovative product, most of the work is done by the app. There&#8217;s no reason why a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"generic sensor beacon (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/sensor\" target=\"_blank\">generic acceleration sensor beacon<\/a> couldn&#8217;t have been used within the helmet (or elsewhere). However, we guess including anything extra inside a helmet, in a safe manner, poses some challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An insight from this is that there are probably many untapped opportunities for vertical sensor beacon type applications that predominantly make use of apps to provide for much of the functionality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nordic have news of a new cycling helmet with embedded nRF52 device, also used inside many beacons, that detects acceleration and in conjunction with an app, can send location and crash alerts. While it&#8217;s an interesting and innovative product, most of the work is done by the app. There&#8217;s no reason why a generic acceleration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/smart-cycling-helmet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smart Cycling Helmet&#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":[41,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243"}],"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=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3251,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}