IOT Journal, an independent website devoted solely to covering Internet of Things technologies and their many business applications, published an article about Eldheimar Museum and iBeacon technology used there.
In the early morning hours of January 23, 1973, on the island of Heimaey, part of an archipelago off the coast of Iceland, the Eldfell volcano erupted. The event lasted for an astounding five months and, as a result, the island grew by 2.1 square kilometers (0.81 square mile) in size and rose by 200 meters (656 feet) in height. But the event also marked a tragedy for the island’s more than 5,000 inhabitants who were forced to flee. In the end, 400 homes and businesses were covered by lava or ash.
The event, often called the Pompeii of the North, is memorialized at the Eldheimar Museum, which was built around one of the homes exhumed from the volcano’s ash. The museum opened its doors in May 2014, along with a beacon-based interactive tour developed by Locatify, a startup based in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, a coastal town south of Reykjavik. Read more…
