{"id":3407,"date":"2019-04-23T07:41:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T07:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3407"},"modified":"2019-04-23T08:42:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T08:42:05","slug":"owntracks-location-tracking-and-alerting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/owntracks-location-tracking-and-alerting\/","title":{"rendered":"Owntracks Location Tracking and Alerting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Owntracks (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/owntracks.org\" target=\"_blank\">Owntracks<\/a> is an open source app for iOS and Android that allows you to keep track of your (or vulnerable family member&#8217;s) location. However, it also has business uses to track valuable assets. You can also build a private location diary and share it with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/owntracks.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3408\" width=\"240\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/owntracks.png 320w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/owntracks-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 85vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/owntracks.org\/booklet\/features\/beacons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"works with iBeacons (opens in a new tab)\">works with iBeacons<\/a> to provide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Locating indoors where GPS doesn&#8217;t work<\/li><li>Attributing location to a vehicle to track time spent commuting or to see where you have parked your car<\/li><li>Fitting to keys\/luggage\/expensive equipment to get notified when you leave them behind<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owntracks is an open source app for iOS and Android that allows you to keep track of your (or vulnerable family member&#8217;s) location. However, it also has business uses to track valuable assets. You can also build a private location diary and share it with others. It works with iBeacons to provide: Locating indoors where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/owntracks-location-tracking-and-alerting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Owntracks Location Tracking and Alerting&#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":[2,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407"}],"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=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}