{"id":3861,"date":"2019-07-30T13:07:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T13:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2019-07-30T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T13:18:11","slug":"updated-solutions-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/updated-solutions-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated Solutions Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have re-implemented our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/solutionsdirectory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Beacon Solutions Directory (opens in a new tab)\">Beacon Solutions Directory<\/a> making it easier to use and more up to date:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/solutionsdirectory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"588\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/solutionsdirectory.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/solutionsdirectory.png 588w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/solutionsdirectory-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 85vw, 588px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We have removed listings for solutions that no longer exist, updated solutions that have changed focus and added some newer solutions that use <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"generic beacons (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/GenericBeacons\" target=\"_blank\">generic beacons<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We found that a considerable number of marketing\/retail solutions no longer exist and only the stronger ones remain. This is mainly due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/google-to-stop-serving-android-nearby-notifications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the demise of Eddystone URL (opens in a new tab)\">the demise of Eddystone URL<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s an upsurge in checkin\/checkout solutions presumably partly due to<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" recent ruling by the European Court of Justice (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/inhouse-legal.eu\/public-policy-regulations\/mandatory-recording\/\" target=\"_blank\"> recent ruling by the European Court of Justice<\/a> that said that EU companies must have something in place to provide an <em>\u201cobjective, reliable and accessible system\u201d<\/em> that allows the duration of time worked each day to be measured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The use of beacons in visitor spaces is also a growing area with solutions ranging from single use kiosks to event management platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Generally, support for beacons is being added to existing, mature solutions rather than, as previously, new solutions being created solely around beacon functionality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have re-implemented our Beacon Solutions Directory making it easier to use and more up to date: We have removed listings for solutions that no longer exist, updated solutions that have changed focus and added some newer solutions that use generic beacons. We found that a considerable number of marketing\/retail solutions no longer exist and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/updated-solutions-directory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Updated Solutions Directory&#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":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861"}],"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=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3868,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions\/3868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}