http://developer.radiusnetworks.com/2013/10/09/how-to-make-a...
Here's a link the source for an app that we wrote for a Party that we threw recently..
https://github.com/backofthecup/HolidayParty
We built a few D3 visualizations of where users were at the party, and how fast they found hidden iBeacons... kind of like a treasure hunt game to demo the technology.
We didn't have any iBeacons handy (only 5 days between idea and completion), so we were using an iPad to broadcast an "iBeacon". It was pretty neat. I'd like to get my hands on some of Estimotes beacons.
Thoughts? Am I missing anything here?
Experience is awful. It is thought that BLE might be better tech that leads to a better experience.
(At a recent AngelHack, I built an indoor-positioning system based on triangulation of signal strength. I tested with a StickNFind BLE device and a couple of homemade BLE(-ish) devices based on nRF24L01 RF modules. I'm hoping the signal strength from the Estimote is going to be more consistent than these.)
My trilateration code isn't great - I tried doing it properly and couldn't get it working in the 24 hours of the hackathon. Positioning along a 1D line using signal strength from two beacons was much simpler and I implemented this and then bodged in a third beacon using some averaging.
We also have a similar SDK that works over indoor WiFi, though the accuracy is definitely better for the BLE beacon.
