What is the iBeacon Bluetooth Profile

Question

I\'d like to create my own iBeacon with some Bluetooth Low Energy dev kits. Apple has yet to release a specification for iBeacons, however, a few hardware developers have re

Answer 1

It seems to based on advertisement data, particularly the manufacturer data:

4C00 02 15 585CDE931B0142CC9A1325009BEDC65E 0000 0000 C5

  
       

• Apple Company Identifier (Little Endian), 0x004c
• data type, 0x02 => iBeacon
• data length, 0x15 = 21
• uuid: 585CDE931B0142CC9A1325009BEDC65E
• major: 0000
• minor: 0000
• meaured power at 1 meter: 0xc5 = -59

I have this node.js script working on Linux with the sample AirLocate app example.