{"id":3441,"date":"2019-05-09T09:41:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T09:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2024-10-20T13:41:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T13:41:27","slug":"sensingkit-for-ios-and-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/sensingkit-for-ios-and-android\/","title":{"rendered":"SensingKit for iOS and Android"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a 3rd party <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SensingKit for iOS and Android (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sensingkit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">SensingKit for iOS and Android<\/a> that came out of the research, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SensingKit: Evaluating the Sensor Power Consumption in iOS devices (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1606.05576.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">SensingKit: Evaluating the Sensor Power Consumption in iOS devices<\/a> (pdf), by Kleomenis Katevas, Hamed Haddadi, Laurissa Tokarchuk of Queen Mary University of London.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sensingkit.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sensingkit.png 500w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sensingkit-277x300.png 277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>While the SensingKit supports beacons, it only supports them for detecting proximity. The various <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"sensor beacon variants (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/sensor\" target=\"_blank\">sensor beacon variants<\/a> are not supported. SensingKit is best used when you want the smartphone, not the beacon, to do the sensing. It&#8217;s useful when you want to mix smartphone sensing with beacon proximity sensing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In most cases it&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"best to use the native Android and iOS SDKs (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/should-i-use-the-manufacturer-ibeacon-sdks\/\" target=\"_blank\">best to use the native Android and iOS SDKs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about our <a href=\"https:\/\/beaconzone.consulting\/\">Bluetooth LE Development Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a 3rd party SensingKit for iOS and Android that came out of the research, SensingKit: Evaluating the Sensor Power Consumption in iOS devices (pdf), by Kleomenis Katevas, Hamed Haddadi, Laurissa Tokarchuk of Queen Mary University of London. While the SensingKit supports beacons, it only supports them for detecting proximity. The various sensor beacon variants &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/sensingkit-for-ios-and-android\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SensingKit for iOS and Android&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9578,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/9578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}