iBeacon Basics and Implementation

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iBeacon Basics and Implementation
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Intro

• iBeacon is a low energy Bluetooth device,
  introduced by Apple with iOS 7. iBeacon is like
  GPS navigation for indoor locations. It is a
  wireless sensor device that you can use for
  location-aware or context-aware into your store.
  It can also use to send notification of offers or
  promotions on a mobile device (Ex. You could be
  walking past a store and receive a discount
  coupon on your mobile).
• Apple introduced iBeacon, a low energy Bluetooth
  device. iBeacon acts as a transmitter with
  low-powered devices, which notifies nearby iOS 7
  devices of its existence. It is like GPS
  navigation for indoor locations and wireless
  sensor devices that can use as location and
  context aware into the store or shopping malls.
• iBeacon can also be used for promotional
  activities with its Push Notification and send
  promotional adverts to nearby iOS devices.
  Currently iBeacon is used in 245 numbers of
  retail stores restaurants and which helps to
  derive more footfalls to their stores.

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• Another giant venture PayPal recently announced
  Beacon, which will allow people to make payment
  on purchase via PayPal. iBeacon is more
  affordable, and its incredible battery efficient
  with price range from 5 to 33.
• As of now iBeacons are not available in many
  countries including India. But we as a team
  curious to experiment test this new technology
  and to implement with our BOYD food ordering
  application for broadcasting and receiving
  purpose.
• To do the same we have converted iOS devices to
  iBeacon and tested with our application and yes
  we have an achievement. I know you are curious to
  know how we did this. Below is detailed
  explanation and code which can help you to create
  your iBeacon.

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• First you need to create a dummy UUID for making
  communication between broadcaster and receiver.
  You can get it from terminal, just run uuidgen to
  generate a UUID.
• Lets get started with Beacon broadcaster. Create
  one single view application into Xcode name it
  Beacon Broadcaster.
• Add CoreBluetooth and CoreLocation frameworks
  into project.

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• Now into ViewController.h file, import
  CoreBluetooth and CoreLocation frameworks,
  declare CLBeaconRegion and CBPeripheralManager
  objects, add one UILabel outlet to display
  status, and one NSDictionary to get beacon data.
  Your ViewController.h file will be look like
  this

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• Implement delegate method of CBPeripheralManager

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• Add one button action for starting broadcasting

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Open storyboard, drag one UIButton and one
UILabel, and set label outlet and button action
to respective control. Your Beacon broadcaster is
ready now.
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• Lets start implementation of Beacon receiver.
  Create new single view application into Xcode
  name it Beacon Receiver. Add CoreLocation
  framework into project.
• Into ViewController.h file, import
  CoreLocation framework, add one UILbel outlet
  to display status, add CLBeaconRegion and
  CLLocationManager objects

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• Into ViewController.m file, initialize
  CLLocationManager, NSUUID and CLBeaconRegion
  objects into ViewDidLoad method

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Implement CLLocationManager delegates to
receive Beacons data
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