ibeacon

Can an iOS7 device act as an iBeacon and figure out when other iOS7 devices come in its range? Do those other iOS7 devices need to have Bluetooth turned on? An iOS device with BluetoothLE can act as an iBeacon yes. Check out the AirLocate example code at https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?name=WWDC%202013# Being an iBeacon doesn't give feedback about devices that come into range so you'd have to implement that yourself. ie you'd have to have the devices that detect the iBeacon then tell the iBeacon they'd seen it through some other means. Yes, an iOS device can act as a beacon,

I've been playing around with using iOS devices as both broadcasters and receivers using the new iBeacon API's in iOS 7. The docs don't go into detail at which distances the receiving device should see each proximity indicator, and specifically calls them out as "relative". When experimenting a with a demo app, I observed these distances (iPhone == receiver, iPad == broadcaster): Far - 50 feet? Near - 2-3 feet Immediate - 2 inches These seemed really small to me, and there is perhaps a hint in the CLBeaconRegion class reference, which allows you to specify the signal strength of your device

I have a use case where my objective-c application needs to immediately use iBeacon after it's been terminated in order to wake the application up from a terminated state, connect to BLE and send a command to the device. I have a larger longer running post found here that you can check out for my code if need be. The Problem The problem so far, happens when I run the application, search for previously paired devices and/or scan for peripherals, find my BLE device and connect. Once connected the user pairs the BLE connection so that they can send encrypted characteristic data over BLE

What I need: A predictable, solid and reliable way of launching iBeacon delegate methods such as didDetermineState , didRangeBeacons , didEnterRegion or didExitRegion when the app is dead and the device is plugged in and nearby. The Current Situation I am making an app for parents to use for their kids to help them shut down their phones during important times. The app is in Objective-C and it needs to maintain a persistent connection to a bluetooth device even after the life of the application. I have been trying for a long time to get this to work and I have had help from a lot of S.O.

iBeacon is a promising new technology. But how secure is it? Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) can be secure when encryption is enabled. However, this is only the case when communication is established. But the iBeacon framework isn't meant to allow communication between devices. It even isn't possible to communicate through the iBeacon framework (CoreBluetooth should then be used). An iBeacon is only capable of advertising (data). But are those advertising packets secured or are these open for public? I am missing a more detailed (technical) report on iBeacon. Another thing which isn't very clear: