{"id":608,"date":"2021-11-29T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T16:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2021-11-29T17:56:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T17:56:46","slug":"physically-attractive-beacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/physically-attractive-beacons\/","title":{"rendered":"Physically Attractive Beacons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One mistake some projects make is to choose physically attractive beacons. Some manufacturers make their beacons look attractive to try to secure more sales. However, in use in some scenarios, the beacons can become attractive to thieves or children and become lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We once had a train transport customer ask <em>&#8220;What&#8217;s your most unattractive beacon ?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ton9108colours_small-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ton9108colours_small\" class=\"wp-image-470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ton9108colours_small-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ton9108colours_small-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ton9108colours_small-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ton9108colours_small-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ton9108colours_small.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Brightly coloured beacons can invite thieves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ton9118_smaller-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ton9118_smaller\" class=\"wp-image-65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ton9118_smaller-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ton9118_smaller-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ton9118_smaller-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ton9118_smaller-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ton9118_smaller.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Small black boxes remain anonymous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One mistake some projects make is to choose physically attractive beacons. Some manufacturers make their beacons look attractive to try to secure more sales. However, in use in some scenarios, the beacons can become attractive to thieves or children and become lost. We once had a train transport customer ask &#8220;What&#8217;s your most unattractive beacon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/physically-attractive-beacons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Physically Attractive Beacons&#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":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6973,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/6973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}