{"id":3818,"date":"2019-07-19T09:16:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T09:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2019-07-19T09:29:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T09:29:54","slug":"location-beacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/location-beacons\/","title":{"rendered":"Location Beacons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We sometimes get asked for location beacons or which beacons are best for determining location. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/allbeacons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"All beacons (opens in a new tab)\">All beacons<\/a> can be used for locating. While there are physical aspects such as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"battery size\/life (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/LargeBattery\" target=\"_blank\">battery size\/life<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"waterproofing (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/waterproof\" target=\"_blank\">waterproofing<\/a> that make some beacons more suitable for some scenarios, locating capability is determined more by the software used rather than the beacons themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our article on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Determining Location Using Bluetooth Beacons (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/bluetoothleposition\" target=\"_blank\">Determining Location Using Bluetooth Beacons<\/a> gives an overview on locating while the article on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Using Beacons, iBeacons for Real-time Locating Systems (RTLS) (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/BeaconForRTLS\" target=\"_blank\">Using Beacons, iBeacons for Real-time Locating Systems (RTLS)<\/a> explains how RTLS work. If you wish to create your own locating software we have a large number of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"posts on RSSI (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/category\/rssi\/\" target=\"_blank\">posts on RSSI<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have been attracted to Bluetooth by recent announcements on <a href=\"https:\/\/bluetoothle.wiki\/direction_finding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Bluetooth direction finding (opens in a new tab)\">Bluetooth direction finding<\/a>, be aware that no ready-made hardware or software solutions exist yet. It will take a while, perhaps years, before silicon vendors support Bluetooth 5.1 direction finding, silicon vendors create SDKs and hardware manufacturers create hardware. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sometimes get asked for location beacons or which beacons are best for determining location. All beacons can be used for locating. While there are physical aspects such as battery size\/life and waterproofing that make some beacons more suitable for some scenarios, locating capability is determined more by the software used rather than the beacons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/location-beacons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Location Beacons&#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":[230,31,130],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818"}],"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=3818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3822,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions\/3822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}