Bluetooth Beacons
Contents_Index
- EDDYSTONE BY GOOGLE5
- PHYSICAL WEB8
- PROXIMITY BEACON API BY GOOGLE4
- IBEACON RESOURCES BY APPLE6
- IBEACON FOR DEVELOPERS17
- INSTALLATION & RADIO PLANNING1
- BEACON DISCOVERY & CONFIGURATION TOOLS1
- BEACON SCANNER APPS1
- SWIFT8
- OBJECTIVE-C3
- STACKOVERFLOW Q&A12
- BEACON DEVELOPMENT9
- BEACON SCANNER APPS4
- BEACON ADVERTISER APPS1
- STACKOVERFLOW Q&A16
- BLUETOOTH SMART & BLE TOOLS3
- WEB BLUETOOTH API8
- PROXIMITY TRENDS & OUTLOOK2
- VENDOR-DRIVEN BEACON STANDARDIZATION2
Eddystone by Google
5_ENTRIES- Advertising frame typesEddystone-UIDEddystone-TLMEddystone-URL
Physical Web
8_ENTRIES- Physical Web - Walk up and use anything
Official Github repository
- Video: Introduction to the Physical Web
Ubiquity Dev Summit 2016
- IEEE: Enabling the Internet of Things
by R. Want, B. Schilit, S. Jenson
Proximity Beacon API by Google
4_ENTRIES- Beacons 101-- Getting Started with the Google Beacon Platform
Video Ubiquity Dev Summit 2016
- Get Started with Beacons
This guide explains the steps required to start using Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons to provide proximity-based experiences for your users.
- Proximity Beacon API
A cloud service that allows you to manage data associated with your BLE beacons using a REST interface
- Nearby
Build simple interactions between nearby devices and people
iBeacon Resources by Apple
6_ENTRIESiBeacon for Developers
17_ENTRIES- Empowering vision impaired people to navigate the world independently
(an open standard)
- 10 awesome things you can do today with iBeacons
(by Twocanoes)
- PunchClock
An in/out tracking app for iOS 7+ that uses iBeacon and Geofencing.
- The Geofancy iOS app
Helping you to get the best out of your automated home, geofencing, iBeacons at your hand.
Installation & Radio Planning
1_ENTRIESBeacon Discovery & Configuration Tools
1_ENTRIES- ScanBeacon
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)
Beacon Scanner Apps
1_ENTRIESSwift
8_ENTRIES- HiBeacons
A nice iBeacon demo app in Swift.
- JMCiBeaconManager
An iBeacon Manager class that is responsible for detecting beacons nearby.
- BeaconKit
Beacon detection framework using CoreBluetooth, supporting Eddystone-UID, Eddystone-URL, AltBeacon.
Objective-C
3_ENTRIES- RABeaconManager
RABeaconManager is an easy to use library that allows you to detect Bluetooth Beacons and iBeacons in the foreground and background.
Stackoverflow Q&A
12_ENTRIESBeacon Development
9_ENTRIES- Android Lolipop Bluetooth Low Energy Enhancements.
Support OS-level scan filter & peripheral mode.
- Android beacon library based on AltBeacon.
Use a custom beacon parser for iBeacon device compatibility.
- BeaconKeeper
The simple library for locating iBeacons in background
- reelyactive-ble-android-sdk
This SDK allows you to scan beacons and advertise as a beacon.
Beacon Scanner Apps
4_ENTRIES- Beacon Scanner & Logger
Android app that scans for BLE Beacons/iBeacons and logs the results to a file
Beacon Advertiser Apps
1_ENTRIES- Beacon Simulator
iBeacon, Eddystone, AltBeacon
Stackoverflow Q&A
16_ENTRIES- Beacon OSX
Mavericks as an iBeacon
- Electron Physical Web Scan
Mac OSX desktop app to scan for Physical Web (Eddystone) bluetooth beacons
- Electron Slide Beacon
Share links from your Mac using this app to broadcast them as an Eddystone URL (Physical Web) bluetooth beacon.
- BeaconKit
Beacon detection framework ns Swift using CoreBluetooth, supporting Eddystone-UID, Eddystone-URL, AltBeacon, iBeacon.
- Universal Bluetooth Beacon Library
open source library and links to apps to talk to Eddystone and iBeacon beacons
Bluetooth Smart & BLE Tools
3_ENTRIES- nRF Master Control Panel (BLE)
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.
- LightBlue Mac OSX
(or iOS) LightBlue can test all of your devices that use Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (also known as Bluetooth Smart, or Bluetooth Light).
- BlueSpeed for iOS by Punch Through
Runs a Bluetooth LE speed test between 2 iOS devices
Web Bluetooth API
8_ENTRIES- Web Bluetooth Intro
by Opera
Proximity Trends & Outlook
2_ENTRIES- Wired
4 Reasons Why Apple’s iBeacon Is About to Disrupt Interaction Design
- Wi-Fi Aware™
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.
Vendor-driven Beacon Standardization
2_ENTRIESBluetooth, Apple, Google, iBeacon, Eddystone and other trademarks are the property of their respective trademark owners.
To the extent possible under law, Square Metrics GmbH has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.
- BeaconCtrl
Setup and manage large beacon deployments with BeaconCtrl Open Source platform