{"id":463,"date":"2020-12-09T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T09:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2023-05-04T17:21:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T17:21:17","slug":"unexpected-beacon-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/unexpected-beacon-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Beacon Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Occasionally, our customers ask for things we didn&#8217;t expect, contradictory requirements or requests that require unusual solutions. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>We were once asked for the beacons we considered to be least attractive. The idea was that they were going to be rolled out into a busy public space and would otherwise easily get spotted and stolen. Small, black beacons turned out to be the solution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are often asked what&#8217;s the best beacon for Android (or iOS) development. There actually isn&#8217;t a best one as they all advertise similar data. Instead, the best beacons are those that can be easily&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/0n-off-button-beacons\" target=\"_blank\">turned on and off<\/a> to test triggering.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some people ask for mains powered beacons. We aren&#8217;t aware such products exist. Instead look at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/usb-beacons\" target=\"_blank\">USB beacons<\/a> that can be powered by USB mains adapters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s often the case people want the longest possible battery life <strong>and <\/strong>the smallest possible beacon. These two factors are mutually exclusive because a large battery is required for a long battery life. It&#8217;s necessary to either decide which is the most important or compromise on both factors. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are sometimes asked to recommend beacons that have the best iOS and\/or Android SDK. In these cases <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/should-i-use-the-manufacturer-ibeacon-sdks\/\">the best SDK is no SDK<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These examples demonstrate what&#8217;s right for one project isn&#8217;t necessarily right for others. This is why we stock the widest beacon range in the World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, our customers ask for things we didn&#8217;t expect, contradictory requirements or requests that require unusual solutions. Here are some examples: These examples demonstrate what&#8217;s right for one project isn&#8217;t necessarily right for others. This is why we stock the widest beacon range in the World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8547,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/8547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}