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mm24
mm24

Reputation: 9596

Proximity based actions based on Wi-Fi signal

Does iOS support proximity based actions when detecting a specific Wi-Fi signal?

E.g. similarly to what happens with iBeacons is it possible to detect entering a Wi-Fi region?

I have found this article on Wi-Fi Aware which is interesting: http://www.wi-fi.org/beacon/rolf-de-vegt/wi-fi-aware-a-platform-for-proximity-based-wi-fi-innovation

Upvotes: 0

Views: 251

Answers (1)

davidgyoung
davidgyoung

Reputation: 64941

Unfortunately, iOS does not provide third party apps access to visible WiFi networks.

There are private APIs that some apps use to detect the name of the currently connected WiFi network, but that is of limited use because a user will not connect to every WiFi network when moving around. The CoreLocation component of the operating system itself does use visible WiFi networks to help infer it's latitude and longitude, but the mechanism is internal, closed source and not exposed to the user.

Upvotes: 2

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