rad studio developer skill sprint: preview - proximity awareness with beacons
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Preview: Proximity Awareness with Beacons
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John “JT” Thomas, Dir. Of Dev Products
March 10th, 2015
@IOnThings
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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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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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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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