Understanding Beacons and Types of Beacons
What is a Beacon? Just like LightHouse which sends signal to communicate with ships, Similar to Lighthouse a beacon uses Bluetooth Low energy signal to communicate with any smart phone device in its range. How do Beacons look like? Its basically a Hardware, a tiny and simple device which has a CPU, lithium chip batteries and radio. You can see them in different shapes, too. What are the different types of beacon protocol? There are a few types of Beacon protocols, those are iBeacons, Eddystone, AltBeacon, GeoBeacon and few others. I am covering following protocols in this article: 1) iBeacons: Designed by Apple The very first beacon protocol in the market was announced by Apple and they named it iBeacon which works with IOS and Android, both. It transmits UUID which is basically a string of 24 numbers communicating with an mobile app in the smartphone. There are 3 components to identify iBeacons: UDID: Unique Universal Identifier, this uniq...