{"id":2635,"date":"2009-11-01T20:53:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2009-11-01T20:53:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:53:16","slug":"taxi-drivers-as-security-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/taxi-drivers-as-security-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi drivers as security guards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This local article caught my eye over the weekend, a security veteran and local taxi cab company are joining forces to utilise the taxi driver network to respond to burglaries (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=10606491\">NZHerald<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Neat little idea.<\/p>\n<p>This is a basic network acquisition model, a security companies value is in its ability to respond to alarms (ie security guard distribution), taxi drivers have distribution but require higher revenue. \u00a0By pairing those both parties win.<\/p>\n<p>Not original but that&#8217;s what innovation is about, taking an existing model and applying it in a new context&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I also discussed this on the radio this morning:<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MtGejOaN2qo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This local article caught my eye over the weekend, a security veteran and local taxi cab company are joining forces to utilise the taxi driver network to respond to burglaries (via NZHerald). Neat little idea. This is a basic network acquisition model, a security companies value is in its ability to respond to alarms (ie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[194,477,478,830,1114,1240],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}