CocoaHeads Paris iBeacon par Clément Sauvage

A Beacon storyCocoaheads Paris Meeting

January, 15th 2015© Clément Sauvage & Kalokod SAS - Cocoaheads Paris - Jan. 2015

Who Am I ?

Clément Sauvage24 years oldLille, France

iOS Developer for half a decade

IoT Lovr

@clementsauvage @csauvage on GitHub

© Clément Sauvage & Kalokod SAS - Cocoaheads Paris - Jan. 2015

I work at

Founder of creative agency Kalokod

(Mostly mobile Web consulting)© Clément Sauvage & Kalokod SAS - Cocoaheads Paris - Jan. 2015

Involved in educationTeacher @ Supinfo

Teacher @ #SupDeWeb & IEJCocoaheads Lille Organizer


1. iBeacon - Rethinking the user interaction 2. The Saslong use case & few others

3. Q/A


iBeaconRethinking the user interaction


Let's talk bluetoothiBeacons are bluetooth 4.0 powered

(a.k.a Wibree, BLE, or Smart Bluetooth)It use Bluetooth Advertising (What ?)


Bluetooth advertising is a method of mobile marketing that utilizes Bluetooth technology to deliver content such as message, information or advertisement to mobile devices such as cellular

phones or tablet computer-- Wikipédia


Beacon PacketProximity UUID : B94-(...)-E6D

Unique identifier (world-wide company)


Beacon PacketMajor67456

Global identifier (value , identifier, group of shops...)


Beacon PacketMinor95643

Local identifier (value , identifier for a specifiq device...)


Beacon PacketExemple

B9407F30-F5F8-466E-AFF9-25556B57FE6D 67456 95643


Happy Coding


Core Location framework#import <CoreLocation/CoreLocation.h>


Core Location framework#import <CoreLocation/CoreLocation.h>

Wait ...



Monitoring vs. Ranging© Clément Sauvage & Kalokod SAS - Cocoaheads Paris - Jan. 2015

Monitoring :Enter / Exit a Beacon region

Can be done when app is in background

- (void)beaconManager:(ESTBeaconManager *)manager didEnterRegion:(ESTBeaconRegion *)region

- (void)beaconManager:(ESTBeaconManager *)manager didExitRegion:(ESTBeaconRegion *)region


RangingScan for bluetooth signal

Can be done when app is in foreground only

- (void)beaconManager:(ESTBeaconManager *)manager didRangeBeacons:(NSArray *)beacons inRegion:(ESTBeaconRegion *)region


EST- ?· ESTBeaconRegion· ESTBeaconManager

· ...


EST is for Estimote© Clément Sauvage & Kalokod SAS - Cocoaheads Paris - Jan. 2015


The Saslong Use Case & Others


Questions ?© Clément Sauvage & Kalokod SAS - Cocoaheads Paris - Jan. 2015

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