August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
6h 1m
English
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iBeacon
iBeacon has been around since 2013, which was way before Google's Eddystone's protocol. Due to its early inception, it was also the first Beacon protocol to be introduced. Unlike Eddystone, iBeacon protocol is proprietary and the specification is controlled by Apple. iBeacon is a much more simpler protocol to implement as compared to Eddystone. iBeacon just defines a single message format with 31 bytes of data as shown in the following figure:
Figure 4: iBeacon advertisement packet
Each iBeacon packet consists of three important parts:
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A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) that identifies the beacon as part of a large group (for ...