Spinning the Phisycal Web with Android and Bluetooth 5
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Demonstrations show Android using BLE advertising and scanner APIs to broadcast Eddystone URLs and UID frames and to startAdvertising from a phone, parse 31‑byte advertising packets, read RSSI and run path‑loss distance estimation and rudimentary triangulation; BBC micro:bits act as live beacons and demos mostly work though scanning can be flaky in crowded spaces; Bluetooth 5 promises longer range and higher throughput, and the uploader’s claim of ~500 million beacons per year frames the scale and urgency.
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- 0:00Start
- 3:46LOCATE KNOW USE with Bluetooth bea
- 9:29Beacon techno can be embed in everyday obj
- 27:53calibration in s TX power in advertising pac
- 42:31Rich, context descriptions things
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