skip to main content
10.1145/2978178.2978179acmconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PagesiteConference Proceedingsconference-collections
abstract
Public Access

Impact of the Physical Web and BLE Beacons

Published:28 September 2016Publication History

ABSTRACT

The Physical Web is a project announced by Google's Chrome team that essentially provides a framework to discover "smart" physical objects (e.g. vending machines, classroom, conference room, cafeteria etc.) and interact with specific, contextual content without having to resort to downloading a specific app. A common app such as the open source and freely available Physical Web app on the Google Play Store or the BKON Browser on the Apple App Store, can access nearby beacons.

A current work-in-progress at the University of Maui College is developing a campus-wide prototype of beacon technology using Eddystone-URL and EID protocol from various beacon vendors.

References

  1. Avinatan Hassidim et al. "Ephemeral Identifiers: Mitigating Tracking & Spoofing Threats BLE Beacons". url: https://developers.google.com/beacons/eddystone-eid-preprint.pdf.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  2. Eddystone-EID. url: https://developers.google.com/beacons/eddystone-eidGoogle ScholarGoogle Scholar
  3. Proximity Beacon API Overview. url: https://developers.google.com/beacons/proximity/guidesGoogle ScholarGoogle Scholar

Index Terms

  1. Impact of the Physical Web and BLE Beacons

      Recommendations

      Comments

      Login options

      Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

      Sign in
      • Published in

        cover image ACM Conferences
        RIIT '16: Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference on Research in Information Technology
        September 2016
        66 pages
        ISBN:9781450344531
        DOI:10.1145/2978178

        Copyright © 2016 Owner/Author

        Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.

        Publisher

        Association for Computing Machinery

        New York, NY, United States

        Publication History

        • Published: 28 September 2016

        Check for updates

        Qualifiers

        • abstract

        Acceptance Rates

        RIIT '16 Paper Acceptance Rate9of20submissions,45%Overall Acceptance Rate51of116submissions,44%

      PDF Format

      View or Download as a PDF file.

      PDF

      eReader

      View online with eReader.

      eReader