iBeacons & Bluetooth LE: Interacting with the physical world on iOS

Slides from my talk at Kod.io in Istanbul. I talked about the Bluetooth LE and iBeacon technologies and how you can integrate them with iOS apps. I also gave some information on what kind of hardware integration can be done, specifically using Arduino boards for prototyping.

Style and colour theme was inspired by Chris Coyier's (http://chriscoyier.net) excellent slide deck designs with his gracious approval.

Transcript

1. iBeacons & Bluetooth LE Interacting with the physical world
2. Taylan Pinçe @taylanpince
6. GPS
7. Bluetooth
8. NFC
9. NFC Did this ever happen?
10. Solution:
11. Solution: Wait, what?!
13. Device Adoption 1 2 3 iPhone 4S+ iPad 3+ Samsung Galaxy S3+ 4 LG, Nokia Lumia, others
14. OS Adoption 1 2 3 iOS6+ Android 4.3+ Windows Phone 8
18. Cool stuff, but I don’t do hardware!
24. DEMO
25. Device Discovery
26. Device Discovery Hello, I’m w710eeb8- a2c63-lf01-l99e- e1b4ak0
27. Device Discovery Hello, I’m w710eeb8- a2c63-lf01-l99e- e1b4ak0 I was looking for you!
28. Bluetooth LE on iOS CBCentralManager write CBPeripheral read
29. iOS Send some data to Arduino CBPeripheral *peripheral; UInt8 buffer[2] = {0x01, 0x00}; buffer[1] = 150; [peripheral writeValue:data ...];
30. Arduino while (ble_available()) { byte data0 = ble_read(); byte data1 = ble_read(); if (data0 == 0x01) { analogWrite(MOTOR_FWD, data1); } } Read incoming data
31. Apple & Bluetooth LE 1 2 3 Macs since 2011 iPhones since 2011 iOS & OSX integration 4 Location services in iOS7
32. iBeacons 1 2 3 Built on Bluetooth LE Reliable proximity info Background mode 4 iOS7 & Mavericks
33. iBeacon Discovery
34. iBeacon Discovery I’m f710eeb8- 2c63-4f01-999e- a1b4ak0-aike5 with Major 50 and Minor 20
35. iBeacon Discovery I’m f710eeb8- 2c63-4f01-999e- a1b4ak0-aike5 with Major 50 and Minor 20 You are close by!
36. Hardware
37. Hardware
38. Office Tracker
39. Caveats 1 2 3 Bluetooth should be on Background apps allowed Location privacy allowed 4 Needs an app or Passbook
40. Thank you! @taylanpince
41. jobs@hipo.biz @hipolabs We are hiring!
42. Q&A