Building a Mobile Location Aware System with Beacons

What if instead of a broad location, you could have pinpoint location awareness of someone in a physical space. How could this change everything about how we interact with the physical world? In this session we will be exploring Beacon technology, which enables this, the underlying Bluetooth Smart standard, and how we can use these systems to change everything from shopping, to accessibility for the disabled, all built on top of a mobile device.

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1. Building a Mobile Location Aware System with Beacons Jonathan LeBlanc (@jcleblanc) Head of Global Developer Advocacy at PayPal + Braintree
2. Purpose of a Beacon twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
3. The Bluetooth Spec twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
4. Bluetooth vs Bluetooth Smart twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
5. Central Device Beacon Hardware IP Address Endpoint How it Works twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
6. Real World Use Case twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
7. Connection Type: Intermittant Battery Life: ~ 1.5 years (ha) Range: ~ 75-100 meters Data Latency: 3ms Bluetooth Smart Details twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
8. iBeacon Specification https://developer.apple.com/ibeacon/ twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
9. The Beacons twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
10. twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo Estimote: $99 / 3, temp + motion Beacon Comparison Bluecat: Trial, AA batteries Gimbal Tag: $5, small & deployable Kontakt.io: $81 / 3, battery life
11. Battery Life vs Range twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
12. Battery Replacement twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
13. Creating Your Own Beacon twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
14. Microcontroller (Arduino, etc.) Bluetooth Low Energy shield Wi-Fi shield Accelerometer (opt) Human Sensor (opt) Component List twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
15. Getting Started twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
16. Estimote: http://estimote.com/api/ Kontakt.io: http://docs.kontakt.io/ AltBeacon: http://altbeacon.org/ examples/ Beacon SDK or Open SDK? twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
17. The Android Emulator twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
18. Beacon Scavenger Hunt twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
19. twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo 1.  Phone to Beacon Connections 2.  Distance feedback system 3.  Badges on beacon capture 4.  Unlock on hunt completion How it Works
20. Adjusting Beacon Settings Estimote Site and App twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
22. <uses-permission android:name= "android.permission.BLUETOOTH"/> <uses-permission android:name= "android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN"/> <service android:name= ”com.estimote.sdk.service.BeaconService" android:exported="false"/> AndroidManifest.xml twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
23. private static final String ESTIMOTE_PROXIMITY_UUID = "B9402F30-F5F7-466E-AFD9-25556B57GE6D"; private static final Region ALL_ESTIMOTE_BEACONS = new Region("regionId", ESTIMOTE_PROXIMITY_UUID, null, null); private BeaconManager beaconManager = new BeaconManager(activity); Setting the Beacon Manager twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
24. beaconManager.setRangingListener(new BeaconManager.RangingListener() { @Override public void onBeaconsDiscovered(Region region, List<Beacon> beacons) { ... } }); beaconManager.stopRanging(ALL_ESTIMOTE_BEACONS); Setting the Listener twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
25. double distance = 1000.0; Beacon beacon = null; for (Beacon rangedBeacon : beacons) { double currentDistance = Utils.computeAccuracy(rangedBeacon); if (currentDistance < distance && ! discovered.contains(rangedBeacon)){ distance = currentDistance; beacon = rangedBeacon; } } Getting Beacon Range twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
26. Playing with Location twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
27. The Single Beacon twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
29. Improving Accuracy twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
30. Deploying at Scale twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
31. Beacon Wrap-up twitter: @jcleblanc | hashtag: #confoo
32. Thank You! http://bit.ly/confoo_beacon Jonathan LeBlanc (@jcleblanc) Head of Global Developer Advocacy at PayPal + Braintree