Google Developers Beacons Portal

Eddystone Protocol Specification & Tools

Specification for Eddystone, an open beacon format from Google (archived)

Web Bluetooth Eddystone Configurator

Physical Web - Walk up and use anything

Official Github repository

Video: Introduction to the Physical Web

Ubiquity Dev Summit 2016

URL Validator 1

, URL Validator 2

Physical Web Getting Started Guide for Developers

Physical Web Implementation Status

IEEE: Enabling the Internet of Things

by R. Want, B. Schilit, S. Jenson

Exploring the Physical Web (Without Buying Beacons)

Beacons 101-- Getting Started with the Google Beacon Platform

Video Ubiquity Dev Summit 2016

Get Started with Beacons

This guide explains the steps required to start using Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons to provide proximity-based experiences for your users.

Proximity Beacon API

A cloud service that allows you to manage data associated with your BLE beacons using a REST interface

Nearby

Build simple interactions between nearby devices and people

iBeacon for Developers

Getting Started with iBeacon (PDF)

iOS: Understanding iBeacon device compatibility

iOS 7: Understanding Location Services

Apple AirLocate Sample Code

(iOS8 fix)

Building Applications with iBeacon

Cisco iBeacon FAQ

5 Minute Overview - What is iBeacon? by ThoughtWorks

A Semi-Technical Lowdown on Working with iBeacons

CapTech Webinar: iBeacon Demystified

5 fundamental misconceptions about Beacon technology by RadiusNetworks

Ask a Dev: What Are the Limitations of Beacons?

What's the Difference Between Beacons and Geofencing?

Guide to iBeacon Hardware by beekn.net

Developing an iBeacon App by beekn.net

Empowering vision impaired people to navigate the world independently

(an open standard)

Google Glass & Beacons

10 awesome things you can do today with iBeacons

(by Twocanoes)

PunchClock

An in/out tracking app for iOS 7+ that uses iBeacon and Geofencing.

The Geofancy iOS app

Helping you to get the best out of your automated home, geofencing, iBeacons at your hand.

LaunchHere for iOS - iBeacon based app shortcuts

Traveling with Beacons: Checked Luggage Made Easy

ScanBeacon

A ruby gem that allows you to scan for beacon advertisements using IOBluetooth (on Mac OS X) or a BlueGiga BLE112 device (on mac or linux)

Locate Beacon by RadiusNetworks

Eddystone Protocol Specification & Tools

Specification for Eddystone, an open beacon format from Google (archived)

Swift based iBeacon App Development with CoreLocation on Apple iOS 7/8

Udemy: iBeacon development for iPhone

HiBeacons

A nice iBeacon demo app in Swift.

PubNub.com - Two-Way iBeacon Communication with Swift Programming Language

iOS & OSX Bluetooth library for RxSwift

RxBluetoothKit is a Bluetooth library that makes interaction with BLE devices much more pleasant using RxSwift.

JMCiBeaconManager

An iBeacon Manager class that is responsible for detecting beacons nearby.

BeaconKit

Beacon detection framework using CoreBluetooth, supporting Eddystone-UID, Eddystone-URL, AltBeacon.

Generic iBeacon Management and Utilities by KinveyLabs

Replicates detecting and broadcasting iBeacons in the background

RABeaconManager

RABeaconManager is an easy to use library that allows you to detect Bluetooth Beacons and iBeacons in the foreground and background.

iBeacon detection time in background

iBeacon region monitoring AND proximity for >20 beacons?

How to make iBeacon foreground ranging for CLProximityImmediate faster in iOS?

Can we start iBeacon transmitter in background?

How does iBeacon wake up our app?

Use Core Bluetooth instead of iBeacon - Any Downsides?

Beacon Toy - Android App to advertise as Eddystone

Android BLE advertising library

Locate by Radius Networks - Virtual iBeacon

Eddystone Protocol Specification & Tools

Specification for Eddystone, an open beacon format from Google (archived)

Linux iBeacon broadcaster

Quick Beacon

Android Lolipop Bluetooth Low Energy Enhancements.

Support OS-level scan filter & peripheral mode.

iBeacon Scanner for Android

, Docs & Blog post

Android beacon library based on AltBeacon.

Use a custom beacon parser for iBeacon device compatibility.

BeaconKeeper

The simple library for locating iBeacons in background

Android & BLE

DevBytes: Bluetooth Low Energy API in Android 4.3

BLE SDK for Android

Bluetooth LE Library for Android

reelyactive-ble-android-sdk

This SDK allows you to scan beacons and advertise as a beacon.

iBeacon Scanner

& code

Beacon Scanner & Logger

Android app that scans for BLE Beacons/iBeacons and logs the results to a file

iBeacon Detector

Bluetooth 4.0 Scanner

Beacon Toy - Android App to advertise as Eddystone

BLE Distancing

Cordova iBeacon Plugin

Using iBeacon with Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android

iBeacon advertising and scanning in a Titanium module

iBeacon Scanning Utility App for OSX

iBeacon Scanner - Scan for nearby iBeacons regardless of their UUID

Beacon OSX

Mavericks as an iBeacon

Electron Physical Web Scan

Mac OSX desktop app to scan for Physical Web (Eddystone) bluetooth beacons

Electron Slide Beacon

Share links from your Mac using this app to broadcast them as an Eddystone URL (Physical Web) bluetooth beacon.

BeaconKit

Beacon detection framework using CoreBluetooth, supporting Eddystone-UID, Eddystone-URL, AltBeacon.

Python script for scanning and advertising urls over Eddystone-URL

Node-RED nodes to interact with the Physical Web

A node.js BLE (Bluetooth low energy) central module

A node.js module for implementing BLE (Bluetooth low energy) peripherals

Universal Bluetooth Beacon Library

open source library and links to apps to talk to Eddystone and iBeacon beacons

Official Bluetooth Smart Portal

nRF Master Control Panel (BLE)

nRF Master Control Panel is a powerful generic tool that allows you to scan and explore your Bluetooth Smart (BLE) devices and communicate with them.

LightBlue Mac OSX

(or iOS) LightBlue can test all of your devices that use Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (also known as Bluetooth Smart, or Bluetooth Light).

BlueSpeed for iOS by Punch Through

Runs a Bluetooth LE speed test between 2 iOS devices

Web Bluetooth Intro

by Opera

Web Bluetooth Demos

A collection of Web Bluetooth API usage examples.

Texas Instruments - BLE Portal

Texas Instruments - SensorTag DeveloperKit

TI SensorTag Android Sources

Broadcom - WICED™ Sense Development Kit

Dialog Semiconductor

EMMicroelectronics

Wired

4 Reasons Why Apple’s iBeacon Is About to Disrupt Interaction Design

Wi-Fi Aware™

Wi-Fi Aware™ is a new Wi-Fi Alliance certification program that extends Wi-Fi’s capabilities with a real-time and energy-efficient discovery mechanism that provides an immediate on-ramp to rich here-and-now experiences.

BeaconCtrl

Setup and manage large beacon deployments with BeaconCtrl Open Source platform

The Open and Interoperable Proximity Beacon Specification