iBeacon

An introduction to iBeacon, presented at SWMobile (hosted at Mubaloo Ltd in Bristol, UK) on Tuesday 17th June 2014.

Transcript

1. iBeacon James Frost Senior iOS Developer, Mubaloo
3. iWhat? Gotchas Demos
4. Proximity
5. Indoors
6. ‣ Specification ‣Hardware devices ‣APIs
7. Specification
8. BLE Bluetooth Low Energy
9. No pairing
10. Advertise
11. 0101110 0101110 0101110
12. 100 100 100
13. 02 01 1a 1a ff 4c 00 02 15 ! ! e2 c5 6d b5 df fb 48 d2 b0 60 d0 f5 a7 10 96 e0 ! ! 00 49 ! ! 00 0A ! ! c5 Apple’s prefix UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) Major ID Minor ID Calibrated Transmission Power (2’s complement)
14. ‣ UUID e.g. E2C56DB5-DFFB-48D2-B060-D0F5A71096E0 ‣Major & Minor Both 16-bit unsigned integers
15. San Francisco London Paris E2C56DB5-DFFB-48D2-B060-D0F5A71096E0 1 2 3 Clothing Electronics Household 10 10 10 20 20 20 30 30 30
16. ‣ Calibrated Tx Power e.g. -59 dBm RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) 
 measured at a distance of 1 metre
17. Hardware Devices
20. Battery
21. Based on CR2450
22. APIs
23. CoreLocation Monitoring Ranging
24. Monitoring Background & Foreground
28. Entered Region!
30. Exited Region!
31. ‣Notify the user ‣Record analytics ‣Start a timer
32. Demo
33. “That’s great, James, but I can already do that with geofencing!”
34. Ranging Foreground Only
35. -59 dBm 1m
36. -59 dBm 1m
37. -59 dBm 1m -70 dBm
38. -59 dBm 1m -70 dBm HOT ALGORITHM ACTION
39. -59 dBm 1m -70 dBm 12m
40. ‣Accuracy ‣Proximity Immediate Near Far Unknown
41. ‣Show / unlock content ‣Record analytics ‣Filter data
42. Demo
43. Gotchas
44. Attenuation
47. Do not trust the accuracy value!
48. Demos vs. Real World
49. Demos vs. Real World !
50. Give the user options
51. Near Far Far !
52. Far Far Far ? ? ?
53. Filter
54. 1 2 3 4
55. 1 2 3 4
56. 1 2 3 4
57. 1 2 3 4
58. 1 3 4
59. Proximity not location
60. Sanitizing data
61. ‣Cached data ‣Inaccuracy ‣Unknown beacons ‣Smoothing transitions
62. Demo
63. Is this right for the user?
66. Is this right for the user?
67. That’s iBeacon.
68. Thanks. @frosty ! james@jamesfrost.co.uk
 james.frost@mubaloo.com