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Preview: Proximity Awareness with Beacons

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John “JT” Thomas, Dir. Of Dev Products

March 10th, 2015

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How Skill Sprints Work. - Agenda

• READY– Tips tricks & short URLS

• SET– 20 minutes, 1 topic

• GO– Demo and discussion

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What are Beacons?

• Beacons are small transmitting devices

• They transmit a radio signal on some preset interval to send some basic information

• The typically use low energy BlueTooth• AKA Smart BlueTooth

or BlueTooth LE

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What do Beacons do?

• A Beacon provides proximity and identification information

• More specifically, a Beacon informs a mobile app how close it is to it by way of its signal strength

• A Beacon also provides identification information• UUID, Major ID, & Minor ID

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What can you do with Beacons?

• Your app can:– Know when it within proximity of a beacon and

enters/exits its range

• Limited to BLE range

– Determine how close it is to a beacon

• Based on signal strength

– Know the identify of the beacon

• UUID, Major, Minor

– Take some action based on “seeing” the beacon

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Sample Retail Use Case

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Minority Report

• The future of mall shopping with customer tracking and personalized advertising as envisioned in

the Minority Report

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXJ_obaiYQ

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TBeacon

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DEMONSTRATIONUsing TBeacon to find Promixity to a Beacon

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Radius Networks USB Beacon

Connected to my MacBook

Build a 64-bit iOS app with a

TBeacon to discover my proximity

to this beacon

Read its UUID, Major ID, and Minor

ID

Calculate my distance based on its

signal strength

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Next Preview….

• EMS Push Notifications

• Marco Cantu shows you how to use EMS to send

notifications to EMS clients

• March 17th, 2015– 6AM San Francisco / 9AM New York / 2PM London / 3PM Milan

– 11AM San Francisco / 2PM New York / 7PM London / 8PM Milan

– 5PM San Francisco / Wed 9AM Tokyo / Wed 10AM Sydney

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Q & A

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