{"id":5281,"date":"2020-07-16T08:18:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T08:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5281"},"modified":"2021-01-08T10:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T10:29:09","slug":"4-ways-beacons-are-being-used-to-fight-the-covid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/4-ways-beacons-are-being-used-to-fight-the-covid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Ways Beacons are Being Used to Fight the Covid Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li><strong>Staff Locating<\/strong> &#8211; While our <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/beaconrtls.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">BeaconRTLS\u2122<\/a>  was previously mainly used in factories and warehouses, it is now being used more to determine the location of staff and occupancy of buildings. What might have seemed to be an invasion of privacy is now seen as something desirable to help ensure the safety of workers and audit compliance to industry-specific guidelines. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Social Distancing<\/strong> &#8211; Stand alone <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/SocialDistancing\" target=\"_blank\">social distancing devices<\/a> and tracking systems are helping companies get back to work and stay open.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Lone Working<\/strong> &#8211; There has been an increase in the use of beacons providing touch-free &#8216;check-in&#8217; for workers and for SOS.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Cafes and Restaurants<\/strong> &#8211; Beacons are increasingly being used to identify tables for use in app-based ordering of food.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Locating &#8211; While our BeaconRTLS\u2122 was previously mainly used in factories and warehouses, it is now being used more to determine the location of staff and occupancy of buildings. What might have seemed to be an invasion of privacy is now seen as something desirable to help ensure the safety of workers and audit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/4-ways-beacons-are-being-used-to-fight-the-covid-pandemic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;4 Ways Beacons are Being Used to Fight the Covid Pandemic&#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":[31,270],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281"}],"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=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5974,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions\/5974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}