Re: iBeacons - enter and exit?
Re: iBeacons - enter and exit?
- Subject: Re: iBeacons - enter and exit?
- From: Joseph Dixon <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:35:51 -0500
You could definitely use a geofence. But iBeacons have a big advantage in
power consumption.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Eric E. Dolecki <email@hidden> wrote:
> So only if you have multiple interior locations covered... assuming when
> no beacons are detected that the person has left the area.
> kCLLocationAccuracyNearestTenMeters seems like it would be good enough of
> a geofence to use without beacons. I don't want to go all
> kCLLocationAccuracyBestForNavigation
>
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> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Joseph Dixon <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> iBeacons are useful as proximity detectors, but not much else. A few
>> months ago I did some extensive testing with the idea that I would use
>> multiple iBeacons to triangulate a user's position. After digging through
>> the data what I realized was the signals from the beacons were far too
>> unpredictable to be of much use for determining location. The user's
>> "location" was jumping all around the map even after significant filtering.
>>
>> A common proximity scenario is to place beacons at the entrance and then
>> scatter a few more throughout your office in strategic locations. By
>> determining which beacons are visible you should be able to infer if the
>> user is inside the office and get an idea about which area they are closest
>> to. If no beacons are visible (for more than a few seconds) you can
>> reasonably assume the user has left.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Eric E. Dolecki <email@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have an application built and ready for iBeacon support. It's intention
>>> is to tell whether someone is in the office or not.
>>>
>>> I was planning on placing an iBeacon at the entrance to our office - and
>>> use that to tell my server who is in or out of the office. For fun. Well,
>>> if you walk into the office, it would work, but if you enter the region
>>> again, turn around and go back in the office, you're out of sync. I could
>>> use a geoFence - would this be a better solution?
>>>
>>> Is this type of enter/leave functionality beyond what an iBeacon can
>>> provide? Or would I need to have multiples to gather direction of
>>> movement?
>>> Like a minimum of 3 beacons?
>>>
>>> I'm looking for some strategy that would work best for such a thing.
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