Bluetooth Beacons

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Official Github repository

Ubiquity Dev Summit 2016

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by R. Want, B. Schilit, S. Jenson

Video Ubiquity Dev Summit 2016

This guide explains the steps required to start using Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons to provide proximity-based experiences for your users.

A cloud service that allows you to manage data associated with your BLE beacons using a REST interface

Build simple interactions between nearby devices and people

(iOS8 fix)

(an open standard)

(by Twocanoes)

An in/out tracking app for iOS 7+ that uses iBeacon and Geofencing.

Helping you to get the best out of your automated home, geofencing, iBeacons at your hand.

Brooklyn Museum: Positioning Visitors with iBeacons & Getting Visibility on the iBeacon Problem

A ruby gem that allows you to scan for beacon advertisements using IOBluetooth (on Mac OS X) or a BlueGiga BLE112 device (on mac or linux)

A nice iBeacon demo app in Swift.

An iBeacon Manager class that is responsible for detecting beacons nearby.

Beacon detection framework using CoreBluetooth, supporting Eddystone-UID, Eddystone-URL, AltBeacon.

RABeaconManager is an easy to use library that allows you to detect Bluetooth Beacons and iBeacons in the foreground and background.

uses Eddystone Advertising Library

Support OS-level scan filter & peripheral mode.

, Docs & Blog post

Use a custom beacon parser for iBeacon device compatibility.

The simple library for locating iBeacons in background

This SDK allows you to scan beacons and advertise as a beacon.

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Android app that scans for BLE Beacons/iBeacons and logs the results to a file

iBeacon, Eddystone, AltBeacon

Mavericks as an iBeacon

Mac OSX desktop app to scan for Physical Web (Eddystone) bluetooth beacons

Share links from your Mac using this app to broadcast them as an Eddystone URL (Physical Web) bluetooth beacon.

Beacon detection framework ns Swift using CoreBluetooth, supporting Eddystone-UID, Eddystone-URL, AltBeacon, iBeacon.

open source library and links to apps to talk to Eddystone and iBeacon beacons

nRF Master Control Panel is a powerful generic tool that allows you to scan and explore your Bluetooth Smart (BLE) devices and communicate with them.

(or iOS) LightBlue can test all of your devices that use Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (also known as Bluetooth Smart, or Bluetooth Light).

Runs a Bluetooth LE speed test between 2 iOS devices

by Opera

4 Reasons Why Apple’s iBeacon Is About to Disrupt Interaction Design

Wi-Fi Aware™ is a new Wi-Fi Alliance certification program that extends Wi-Fi’s capabilities with a real-time and energy-efficient discovery mechanism that provides an immediate on-ramp to rich here-and-now experiences.

Setup and manage large beacon deployments with BeaconCtrl Open Source platform