Industrialisation of Beacon Technology with IoT

Spread the #IoT love - my winning solution at #TransformHack - #Intel #Edison listens and talks to @Estimote #Beacon #Stickers via #BLE (Bluetooth Low-energy) #iBeacon protocol on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th April

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1. Industrialisation of Beacon Technology with IoT Charles Cai Saturday 25th - Sunday 26th April 2015 Transform Beacon Sticker Hackathon #transformhack
2. About Me Twi$er:  @caidong     LinkedIn:  charles-­‐cai   GitHub:  charles-­‐cai   Email:  charles.cai@socialogix.net     Day  job:  Head  of  Data  Science  in  a  major  Oil  and  Gas  trading  company   AHer-­‐hours:  Entrepreneur,  Big  Data  &  Machine  Learning  Advocate,  Speakers
3. Think Different, Think Opposite Current Beacon Technology Limitations 1. Most of the use cases involve people going towards the beacons - though stickers are changing that… 2. Most of the use cases use mobile devices - Estimote only provides SDKs for iOS / Android 3. More than half of the use cases are for retailers
4. Our solution: IoT + Beacon • Using the latest SoC (System-on-Chip) IoT/wearable solution from Intel Edison to address all the 3 limitations! 1. We wait for Beacons coming to us! 2. We expand SDKs to IoT and Wearables! 3. We enter all vertical industries!!
5. Intel Edison and its Development Tools • Atom 22nm dual-core CPU @500MHz • 4GB flash storage + 1GB Memory • Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 4.0 + 40x GPIO • $50 • Intel XDK IoT Edition: C/C++, Node.js, Java (Android), Mobile HTML5 • Intel Arduino Breakout Kit / Mini Breakout Kit
6. Demo Time • Reverse engineered Estimote SDK to run on x86 Linux • Edison uses its Bluetooth LE to “listen” and “talk” to beacons / stickers, and its Wi-Fi to communicate to Intranet/Internet • Edison reads sensors (e.g. Light, noise, pollution etc) and writes to external devices (e.g. LED, LCD) via 40x analog, digital GPIOs • 2 Beacon Stickers are registered (car + dog), my Edison will capture them as well as other unknown beacons / stickers too.
7. Vertical Industry Use Cases • Logistics Example • Fleet parking / Inventory Control • Private / Company Carpark Monitor / Control
8. Vertical Industry Use Cases • Disabled Passenger Notification • Traffic Light Control / Prioritisation • Train Station Staff Alert System
9. Vertical Industry Use Cases • VIP Services • Hospitality (VIP Guests) • Pets Store (VIP Pets)
10. Loyalty Programmes • Petrol Discount Voucher Sticker • Edison installed @ Petrol Station / inside Petrol Nozzle • Automatic variable pricing (~1m accuracy) • Linked to Cashier or simply record station visits for loyalty programme rebate • Beacon Stickers on vehicle windshield for identification
11. … with IoT listens and talks Beacon *>~!@… The use cases are just your imaginations!