iBeacon App Development
Enhance your indoor capabilities with a next-gen solution. Asset tracking, security alerts, or instant payments—IT Craft remains responsible for building a top-quality solution.
How does iBeacons app development help?
iBeacons help in many ways:
Improve
visitor
experience
Deliver notifications or start playing audio descriptions when a visitor reaches a point of interest at a certain time.
Create an extra promotional channel
Trigger context-based events such as best deals and discounts. Display product description on the widescreen when a customer takes an item from the shelf.
Receive
feedback and analytics
Collect analytics on customer interactions with advertised items. Use background information to improve customer loyalty.
Automate
inventory maintenance
Provide control over equipment or products inside large spaces. Ensure workers know the exact location of items in the store.
Ensure
product
quality
Use advanced iBeacon models to measure in real-time an item’s parameters such as temperature and humidity to eliminate spoilage.
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Industries
iBeacons benefit everyone. Check out how iBeacon app development helps your industry:
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Hospitals
Provide detailed, in-building navigation and patient auto check-in. Reduce queues by accepting contactless payments. Send alerts to doctors in emergency cases.
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Shopping malls
Engage customers by sending notifications with offers and deals. Improve customer experience by personalization. Eliminate queues via NFC payments.
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Museums
Create a personalized tour recommendation in any language. Offer tour plans with marked items. Start playing audio information when a visitor approaches an artifact.
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Logistics and warehousing
Track the exact location of any tangible assets (equipment, property, valuable objects) using moving BLE beacons. Use BLE beacons with sensors onboard to monitor storage conditions. Receive immediate notifications when conditions deviate from set parameters.
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Banks
Provide personal greetings to clients. Manage queues, collect analytics on waiting time, and gather feedback on client satisfaction. Let clients carry out contactless, yet safe, ATM operations using smartphones.
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Offices
Let employees track their time automatically. Automate authorization to certain restricted areas. Send alert notifications when an employee is needed.
questions from our clients
iBeacon is a special protocol designed by Apple Inc. It is used on small transmitting devices called BLE beacons.
iBeacon helps with the following:
- Indoor positioning and step-by-step navigation
- Tracking solutions
- Promoting products and services
- Improving in-store experience
- Automation solutions
Yes and no.
Yes, an iBeacon is just a small device that periodically transmits signals into an environment.
No, such signal transmission makes little sense. A smartphone can neither recognize nor use it. End users need to install and launch a native app. Plus, to start action after receiving a signal, they must have Bluetooth turned on.
Both Android and iOS support iBeacon detection.
If you are concerned that users might ignore your app, try iOS 14 App Clips to demonstrate the core functionality of your app at a glance.
Beacons are small, inexpensive, low-powered devices equipped with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).
Beacons broadcast signals. Beacon signals contain unique ID numbers which a smartphone app can recognize and use for navigation. Smartphones with relevant apps and Bluetooth are turned on to pick up these signals when they are near.
Beacons can also trigger events and send proximity-based notifications with relevant content to user devices. For instance, when people pass by a restaurant, they receive a notification about daily specials.
iBeacons are relatively cheap devices.
Kontakt Anchor Beacons 2 cost $117 for the pack of three.
Estimote sells its Proximity Beacon at €140 ($150) for four units in a kit.
Beaconic offers 4 iBeacons Retail Kit for €89 ($95).
Heavy-duty beacons or beacons with various sensors onboard cost more.
Three is the minimum number of a pack due to the triangulation effect. All manufacturers offer large-order discounts.
The biggest challenge of iBeacon app development is making measuring as precise as possible.
iBeacon signals might:
- Have issues with Wi-Fi interference because both use the same frequencies.
- Incorrectly display when beacons toggle.
- Lose contact with the user's smartphone due to unexpected, moving obstacles.
- Lack of precision in open spaces and large places without walls (e.g., parking garage).
The following actions help increase signal precision:
- Switch to a channel with different frequencies.
- Ensure optimal hanging height and density of iBeacons.
- Tune signal strength and range.
- Develop a hybrid positioning system that uses geofencing and iBeacons.