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ScanBeacon

The Beacon Scanner For Your Mac

With the ScanBeacon app you can scan for nearby proximity beacons using iBeacon™ and AltBeacon™ technology and display their advertising details using any Macintosh computer running OS X 10.9 or higher and equipped with built-in or third party Bluetooth 4.0 support. ScanBeacon is an indispensable tool when developing proximity beacon solutions for your organization and your customers.

Proximity beacons are low-power wireless transmitters that send identifying information to nearby mobile devices using Bluetooth Low Energy (also known as Bluetooth 4.0 and Bluetooth Smart) signaling. Applications on mobile devices can be triggered by these proximity events and can implement behaviors that correspond to entering, traversing or leaving the local region covered by the iBeacon.

The ScanBeacon application will detect and display active iBeacons that are in range. For each detected beacon, the advertising data displayed includes

UUID - The unique organizational identifier of the beacon
Major - The group identifier of the beacon
MInor - The individual identifier of the beacon
Power - The calibrated power value of the beacon
Type - The beacon advertisement type. Supported types include iBeacon and AltBeacon.

ScanBeacon will also display the RSSI, or received signal strength indication for each beacon and use the RSSI to display the derived distance and proximity to the beacon.

The results of beacon scans can be copied and pasted as plain text into other applications and saved to a JSON-encoded file and reloaded for later analysis. Since ScanBeacon files are JSON-encoded the scan results can easily be consumed my other applications and systems.

Hat Potential… und einen großen Pferdefuß

• ★★★☆☆   Kabe aus M. 10 years ago ( v 1.0 )

Ich hatte hier 3 iBeacons, dessen Hersteller am liebsten sein eigenes Framework unterbringen wollte, und die UDIDs daher nicht rausrückte. Es hat einige Minuten gedauert, aber dann hatte ich sie mit diesem Tool zusammen. Der Empfang der iBeacons dauerte aber sehr viel länger als mit der auf diese Beacons spezialisierten App, aber mit etwas Geduld kamen die Beacons alle an. Schön, dass sich die gewonnenen Informationen per Copy & Paste übertragen lassen. Warum trotzdem nur 3 Sterne? Ganz einfach: Beacons, die 10 Sekunden nicht aktiv waren, verschwinden wieder aus der Liste! Bei der geringen Fundrate der App bedeutet das, dass die Liste nie komplett ist, und man das Scannen immer wieder stoppen muss, um die Daten des Beacons nicht zu verlieren. Da die Anwendung auch keine Settings anbietet, um diese Zeit zu verlängern, ist die Nutzung gerade angesichts des für ein solches Tool sebstbewusten Preises doch ein ziemliches Gebastel.

Fix Copy Advertisement

• ★☆☆☆☆   AngryBlock 9 years ago ( v 2.0 )

Fix Copy Advertisement or this will be a big waste of 12.00 which i find is very steep for something so simple!

Doesn’t work at all.

• ☆☆☆☆☆   31620lpb 8 years ago

Piece of crap. This application doesn’t detect beacons that my phone with free apps is detecting. This is a scam. Do not buy this app. 10 dollars for not doing a thing. Incredible that apple let scammers upload apps in their app store.

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