Just like Eddystone, Apple iBeacon is a beacon platform used for enabling location awareness for devices. The iOS device can then identify itself when it has entered beacon proximity. Unlike Eddystone, it is a closed implementation and native only to iOS users. The advertising packet for iBeacon consists of these four components:
- UUID: Universally unique identifier
- Major: Two-byte string to identify a group of beacons; similar to the namespace in Eddystone
- Minor: Two-byte string to identify individual beacons; similar to an instance in Eddystone
- Tx Power: Transmission Power
In iOS 7, the location was determined by the geographical location (outdoors only), known as geolocation. In iBeacon, this task is achieved by the identifier, ...
