Create Beacons that can be used for a variety of applications.
Stakes around beacons are increasingly determined, mature and appropriated precisely
in retail’s industry where the technology is used to streamline the customer (in
a shop) experience in real-time.
Apple leads the excitmens wihin in this field. Henceforth
Eddystone is a new protocol specification that defines a Bluetooth low
energy (BLE) message format for proximity beacon messages.
Connectikpeople.co can observe that it describes several different frame
types that may be used individually or in combinations to create beacons that
can be used for a variety of applications.
According to Google the design of Eddystone has been driven by several key goals:
- Works well with Android and iOS Bluetooth developer APIs
- Straightforward implementation on a wide range of existing BLE devices
- Flexible architecture permitting development of new frame types
- Fully compliant with the Bluetooth Core Specification
Variety of tools and code samples to assist developers and implementors in
working with Eddystone devices include:
- An Android app that performs non-exhaustive basic validation of all the Eddystone frame types is available at tools/eddystone-validator.
- An Android app that can broadcast configurable Eddystone-UID frames is available at eddystone-uid/tools/txeddystone-uid.
- A validation tool for the dedicated Eddystone-URL configuration service is at eddystone-url/tools/eddystone-url-config-validator.
