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Christos Chadjikyriacou
Christos Chadjikyriacou

Reputation: 3759

How can i make iBeacons private

I created an App which is using some iBeacons functionalities. The goal is to add some beacons in some clients stores so the App shows notifications specific for this stores.Now i am using an UUID that is the same for all my beacons and I am managing to identify the store using minor and major values.

How can I make the beacons not accessible by other Apps ? Is there a way to add passwords to beacons or something like this ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 219

Answers (2)

Christos Chadjikyriacou
Christos Chadjikyriacou

Reputation: 3759

Ok after looking in Estimotes websites i found out that there is a way to lock your beacons.

http://blog.estimote.com/post/103051450215/delivering-on-the-promise-of-beacons-a-modular

To wrap it up: There is a thing called secureUUID. This uuid is changing every couple of minutes. To be able to track this uuid you have to use Estimote cloud service so you can synchronise your app region tracking with beacon.

Upvotes: 3

rckoenes
rckoenes

Reputation: 69479

No this is not possible,iBeacons use very small package size on Bluetooth just sending the UUID and major/minor identifiers.

This has a draw back that you might fake a iBeacon if you know their UUID.

Upvotes: 1

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