{"id":3570,"date":"2019-05-30T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T08:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2020-07-21T12:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T12:21:34","slug":"rail-passenger-interface-using-ibeacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/rail-passenger-interface-using-ibeacons\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail Passenger Interface Using iBeacons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>EAO AG, a company specialising in human machine interfaces, has a new <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"train passenger interface (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/eao.com\/uk\/en\/passenger-interface\/\" target=\"_blank\">train passenger interface<\/a> that provides phone charging and information services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The information services use iBeacon locating to allow train operating companies to provide added value services such as journey information, ticket validation and refreshments requests. The wireless USB phone charging fits onto seats and the iBeacon is detected in mobile apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EAO - Passenger interface\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mk7nmqcL61w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The iBeacon in each Passenger Interface also transmits a code to the passenger\u2019s travel app, while the cloud translates the code into a carriage and seat number, making seat reservations easier to track and helping make passengers\u2019 journeys more connected than ever&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/Transportation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Beacons in Transportation (opens in a new tab)\">Beacons in Transportation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAO AG, a company specialising in human machine interfaces, has a new train passenger interface that provides phone charging and information services. The information services use iBeacon locating to allow train operating companies to provide added value services such as journey information, ticket validation and refreshments requests. The wireless USB phone charging fits onto seats &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/rail-passenger-interface-using-ibeacons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rail Passenger Interface Using iBeacons&#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":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570"}],"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=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5301,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/5301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}