The notifications don't have to beep. For example, I use the Starbucks card via Passbook which works the same way. I have favorite stores set, so I can slide to pay when there. If I walk by, my phone does nothing noticeable though. It's only when I turn on the screen that I notice anything.
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The notifications don't have to beep. For example, I use the Starbucks card via Passbook which works the same way. I have favorite stores set, so I can slide to pay when there. If I walk by, my phone does nothing noticeable though. It's only when I turn on the screen that I notice anything.
iBeacon, iBacon, iHouse
So back in January, CalTech had a hackathon.
My team focused exclusively on iBeacon technology. Here are some snapshots of what we produced. I do not want to go too much into detail but we produced a working model with Pintrest API (because they were sponsoring) and working with devices such as hue lights, like some people mentioned but we worked on other devices too not to mention we built some of our stuff that we included!
For that project a couple of companies extended their interest and offered my entire team Full time jobs
As for the iBacon comment, we are producing an app for someone which I code named iBacon, it also has to do with this iBeacon technology which I can't say much about. But it works with beacons and we already have that part working (as well as the database ^_^ )
For this project my entire team got an iPhone 5S out of it
As what they showed, Real cool, we could actually build this. Some people mentioned apple sandboxing as an issue, trust me its not we built and already got the main core parts working to get all this stuff going...2 months ago.
I just want you guys to know that this is already happening, people are developing, I hope someones excited. I just wish more than just recruiters were at the hackathon, if people gaged the scope of the project I guarantee companies would be far more interested in what we built.
The concept (the one which i provided pictures for) also made a simple version to use google glass to be able to do facial recognition (I made a really cool work around to simplify the overheard and make it possible in large scale). The sky's the limit what we can do with this tech. Just wish I had more funding to be able to create more amazing stuff!!!
So back in January, CalTech had a hackathon.
My team focused exclusively on iBeacon technology. Here are some snapshots of what we produced. I do not want to go too much into detail but we produced a working model with Pintrest API (because they were sponsoring) and working with devices such as hue lights, like some people mentioned but we worked on other devices too not to mention we built some of our stuff that we included!
For that project a couple of companies extended their interest and offered my entire team Full time jobs
As for the iBacon comment, we are producing an app for someone which I code named iBacon, it also has to do with this iBeacon technology which I can't say much about. But it works with beacons and we already have that part working (as well as the database ^_^ )
For this project my entire team got an iPhone 5S out of it
As what they showed, Real cool, we could actually build this. Some people mentioned apple sandboxing as an issue, trust me its not we built and already got the main core parts working to get all this stuff going...2 months ago.
I just want you guys to know that this is already happening, people are developing, I hope someones excited. I just wish more than just recruiters were at the hackathon, if people gaged the scope of the project I guarantee companies would be far more interested in what we built.
The concept (the one which i provided pictures for) also made a simple version to use google glass to be able to do facial recognition (I made a really cool work around to simplify the overheard and make it possible in large scale). The sky's the limit what we can do with this tech. Just wish I had more funding to be able to create more amazing stuff!!!
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We certainly could do with some 'internal GPS' in the Automated Home. This could be it.
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/appl...ined-smart-home-occupancy-sensing-solved.html
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http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/appl...ined-smart-home-occupancy-sensing-solved.html
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iBeacon is not crazy big yet and the good beacons go for ~$20-30. The tech is real simple I see no reason to not seeing ~$10 versions happening fairly easily.
Yeah a lot of what we built was that, both the retail tech and the home tech. the best part was when you could use your home preferences at stores to get a better more personalized shopping experience.
This could handle two things I've wished for:
I work night shift, and the time I get home can vary by up to two hours. Plus, I'm tired and lazy and have a hard time getting up in the next day. I have a medication I take in the when I awake, but sometimes forget. Setting an alarm doesn't cut it. I may not leave my bedroom/master bath for over an hour after I awake. I've wanted a way to have my phone remind me to take my medicine as I near the kitchen. If you could set it to only work during a certain timeframe, that would be nice. Or, set it so that once you acknowledge it, it is deactivated for a certain time period. (Say, 20-22 hours for this, considering how erratic my routine I can be.)
My other thing is for running. When the weather is bad, I run on this little indoor track. Eleven laps is a mile. I tend lose count around... Idk, probably, one. I've run with my phone in my hand, hitting the lap button on the timer each lap. I believe there are little lap counters that you hold and click a button with your thumb after each lap. But, I want my hands empty! I've pondered something that I could hang on the coat rack at the beginning that would sense my approach and record a lap and time in an app on my phone. (I've never bothered to research whether anything like this exists.) This seems to be the way to make that happen!
I would imagine as situations arise, people would be like "Hey, I bet an ibeacon would make this a lot easier!" Then the smart people would make a solution. (That would be you, not me.)
I work night shift, and the time I get home can vary by up to two hours. Plus, I'm tired and lazy and have a hard time getting up in the next day. I have a medication I take in the when I awake, but sometimes forget. Setting an alarm doesn't cut it. I may not leave my bedroom/master bath for over an hour after I awake. I've wanted a way to have my phone remind me to take my medicine as I near the kitchen. If you could set it to only work during a certain timeframe, that would be nice. Or, set it so that once you acknowledge it, it is deactivated for a certain time period. (Say, 20-22 hours for this, considering how erratic my routine I can be.)
My other thing is for running. When the weather is bad, I run on this little indoor track. Eleven laps is a mile. I tend lose count around... Idk, probably, one. I've run with my phone in my hand, hitting the lap button on the timer each lap. I believe there are little lap counters that you hold and click a button with your thumb after each lap. But, I want my hands empty! I've pondered something that I could hang on the coat rack at the beginning that would sense my approach and record a lap and time in an app on my phone. (I've never bothered to research whether anything like this exists.) This seems to be the way to make that happen!
I would imagine as situations arise, people would be like "Hey, I bet an ibeacon would make this a lot easier!" Then the smart people would make a solution. (That would be you, not me.)
I agree, with the caveat that their sandboxing is a big chunk of what has kept me happily attached to Apple's ecosystem in the mobile age.
I'd like to share with you something my company is doing with Ibeacons, we feel so strongly about the technology that we are starting a new crowd funding effort to develop a new imaging platform that makes use of I beacons.
http://www.facebook.com/MycamAnywhere
http://www.facebook.com/MycamAnywhere
Not sure if this will work, I heard a great deal about this iBeacon but it seems not been used in my country Holland yet.
Would like to speak further to you
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Please ping me at tbrennan36@gmail.com to discuss this further. Looking forward to hearing from you. Could be some synergies here really excited to speak with you.
Interesting post. Would like to speak further to you offline regarding this. Please ping me at tbrennan36@gmail.com . look forward to hearing from you. This is for advancewarsbet.
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Please ping me at tbrennan36@gmail.com to discuss this further. Looking forward to hearing from you. Could be some synergies here really excited to speak with you.
So back in January, CalTech had a hackathon.
My team focused exclusively on iBeacon technology. Here are some snapshots of what we produced. I do not want to go too much into detail but we produced a working model with Pintrest API (because they were sponsoring) and working with devices such as hue lights, like some people mentioned but we worked on other devices too not to mention we built some of our stuff that we included!
For that project a couple of companies extended their interest and offered my entire team Full time jobs
As for the iBacon comment, we are producing an app for someone which I code named iBacon, it also has to do with this iBeacon technology which I can't say much about. But it works with beacons and we already have that part working (as well as the database ^_^ )
For this project my entire team got an iPhone 5S out of it
As what they showed, Real cool, we could actually build this. Some people mentioned apple sandboxing as an issue, trust me its not we built and already got the main core parts working to get all this stuff going...2 months ago.
I just want you guys to know that this is already happening, people are developing, I hope someones excited. I just wish more than just recruiters were at the hackathon, if people gaged the scope of the project I guarantee companies would be far more interested in what we built.
The concept (the one which i provided pictures for) also made a simple version to use google glass to be able to do facial recognition (I made a really cool work around to simplify the overheard and make it possible in large scale). The sky's the limit what we can do with this tech. Just wish I had more funding to be able to create more amazing stuff!!!