{"id":543,"date":"2016-07-07T17:53:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T17:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2023-05-05T08:08:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T08:08:36","slug":"using-ibeacons-to-prompt-you-to-do-healthy-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-ibeacons-to-prompt-you-to-do-healthy-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Using iBeacons To Prompt You To Do Healthy Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NagMurty\/status\/750792608096608256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nag Murty&#8217;s tweet<\/a> where he says&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Think ibeacons are only for retail? How about using an ibeacon as a health coach&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.producthunt.com\/tech\/habit-hotspots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Product Hunt web site video<\/a> shows how he is using beacons to prompt himself to do more healthy things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nag doesn&#8217;t share how he does this but it&#8217;s fairly simple to implement. You can use just about any beacon with <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=AutomateIt.mainPackage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AutomateIt<\/a>&nbsp;on Android or Proximitask on iOS to create a notification&nbsp;when you pass a beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We like Nag Murty&#8217;s tweet where he says&#8230; &#8220;Think ibeacons are only for retail? How about using an ibeacon as a health coach&#8221; The Product Hunt web site video shows how he is using beacons to prompt himself to do more healthy things. Nag doesn&#8217;t share how he does this but it&#8217;s fairly simple to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-ibeacons-to-prompt-you-to-do-healthy-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using iBeacons To Prompt You To Do Healthy Things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,93],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8655,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/8655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}