Bluetooth 4.0 2014 2015 2016 iPhone 4S First smartphone with Bluetooth 4.0 Google launches Eddystone specifications Physical Web support on Google Chrome v. 49 for Android Nearby Notifications
UID needs an app to receive designated UID for the app to recognize • Eddystone’s UID have 16 digit strings to identify a beacon uniquely, 10 character Namespace to identify an entity / organization and a 6 character Instance to identify individual beacons • Eddystone-EID
app to catch the data transmitted from it but it requires a beacon supported browser installed. • Eddystone URL broadcasts a URL, which can link to any site. • This is basically for the “Physical Web”, where developer can put content which everyone can access it. (http://google.github.io/physical- web/)
beacons health status like battery life, diagnostic data etc. • These are mainly intended for beacons fleet management and they transmits data less frequently compared to other two.
public void onLeScan(final BluetoothDevice device, int rssi, byte[] scanRecord){ } }; device - Identifies the remote device rssi - The RSSI value for the remote device as reported by the Bluetooth hardware. scanRecord - The content of the advertisement record offered by the remote device.
public void onLeScan(final BluetoothDevice device, int rssi, byte[] scanRecord){ } }; device - Identifies the remote device rssi - The RSSI value for the remote device as reported by the Bluetooth hardware. scanRecord - The content of the advertisement record offered by the remote device.
No proactive notifications • Open Source • BLE energy efficient & widespread • Built on web and urls • Can use mDNS too • Context is the king • Connect digital and real world • Use Eddystone URL beacons • Supported by Chrome for Android, Opera for Android