Eyes, JAPAN Blog > Can you smell the iBeacon?

Can you smell the iBeacon?

will

この記事は1年以上前に書かれたもので、内容が古い可能性がありますのでご注意ください。

As soon as iOS 7.1 is released, the new update about iBeacon in the new iOS attract us. Even when your phone close to a Beacon region, the iOS will notify you.
But wait…, what it iBeacon?
“iBeacon is a new technology that extends Location Services in iOS. Your iOS device can alert apps when you approach or leave a location with an iBeacon. In addition to monitoring location, an app can estimate your proximity to an iBeacon (for example, a display or checkout counter in a retail store). Instead of using latitude and longitude to define the location, iBeacon uses a Bluetooth low energy signal, which iOS devices detect.”
What about application?
We can use it for indoor location. Throw some BLE enable devices on the room, of course do some property setting. When user with the phone crossing the room by passing these devices, it is very easy to figure out the position of user.
Now iOS 7.1 enable app or user to know when phone enter into the range of a BLE device even the app is close.
There are more possible business to make with iBeacon. Let’s see.

  • このエントリーをはてなブックマークに追加

Comments are closed.