{"id":5516,"date":"2020-08-26T09:53:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T09:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5516"},"modified":"2020-08-26T09:53:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T09:53:44","slug":"remote-team-management-using-ios-as-an-ibeacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/remote-team-management-using-ios-as-an-ibeacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote Team Management Using iOS as an iBeacon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

S Sindhumol of Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India presents recent research into Implementation and Analysis of a Smart Team Management System using iOS Devices as iBeacon<\/a> (pdf).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key thing about this research is that it uses iOS rather than a beacon to advertise iBeacon. The system allows the entire team to determine the location of other members, perform location based tasks, receive announcements and communicate via instant chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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iBeacon Team Management Screens<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The paper contains some useful analysis of accuracy of distance measurement on distance, interference, measured power and obstructions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Effect of iBeacon distance accuracy with obstructions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Effect of iBeacon distance accuracy with presence of another iBeacon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Effect of measured power variation on proximity and accuracy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Effect of obstructing objects on RSSI and Accuracy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On iOS it’s only possible to advertise iBeacon if the app is in foreground:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The major limitation of the proposed app is battery drainage while keeping the app active all the time in the foreground<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A more practical system would have been implemented by having the users carry a separate wearable beacon<\/a>. This would have allowed presence to be detected when the app isn’t in foreground and there wouldn’t have been a problem with excessive iOS battery use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S Sindhumol of Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India presents recent research into Implementation and Analysis of a Smart Team Management System using iOS Devices as iBeacon (pdf). The key thing about this research is that it uses iOS rather than a beacon to advertise iBeacon. The system allows the entire team to … Continue reading “Remote Team Management Using iOS as an iBeacon”<\/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":[2,27,31,32,33,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516"}],"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=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5525,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions\/5525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}