present
& Anuj Deshpande
Beacons, Eddystone
& the Physical Web
"The possibilities are strong with this one"
-D. Vader
Lead Dev, The Empire
The Chancellor's signal is coming from right there, the observation platform at the top of that spire
(close doors)
Bluetooth 4.0 LE
- not a replacement to classic BT
- rapid updates
- radically different design principles
source : BLE - The Developer's Handbook
Robin Heydon
GPS is great. But what's next?
A New Hope
GPS : meters :: beacons : centimeters
- Support at the OS layer
- Only Apple
major : 2 bytes
minor : 2 bytes
Apple announces iBeacon
GPRS : WiFi :: GPS : beacons
Empire Strikes Back
UID
URL
Telemetry
Google launches Eddystone in 2015
- Bring Internet to BLE
- Open
API you must have, my young padawan
- Places API
- Proximity Beacon API
- Nearby Messages API
- Vendor APIs
The 3 phases in the life of a beacon Jedi
- Install PhyWeb app, and make another phone act as a beacon
- Get at least 4 developer-friendly-hardware beacons
- Get made-for-deployment beacons and sell it with your app
The force of the beacon awakens
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