Building a Mobile Location Aware System with Beacons

Track: Mobile
Skill Level: Intermediate
Room: Ballroom A
Time Slot: Wed 3/11, 2:30 PM
Tags: mobile , security , data + integration , beacons
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Abstract

What if instead of a broad location, you could have pinpoint location awareness of someone in a physical space. How could this change everything about how we interact with the physical world? In this session we will be exploring Beacon technology, which enables this, the underlying Bluetooth Smart standard, and how we can use these systems to change everything from shopping, to accessibility for the disabled, all built on top of a mobile device.

Jonathan LeBlanc

Jonathan LeBlanc is an Emmy award winning software engineer, author of the O’Reilly book “Programming Social Applications”, co-author of the upcoming title “Identity and Data Security for Web Developers”, and the Head of Global Developer Advocacy for Braintree and PayPal.

Specializing in identity, auth and security, hardware to web interconnectivity, and data mining techniques, as well as open source initiatives around social engagement, Jonathan works on the development of emerging initiatives towards building a more user-centric web.