FxOS Beacon Demos

Goals

• Demonstrate beacon usage in Firefox OS.
• Using WebBluetooth API

Firefox OS Beacon Scanner Add-on

A Firefox OS Add-on to add a beacon scanner tray on bottom of the screen,
swipe up to scan nearby beacons, checking distances to help you find stuff,
also supports opening URL/Apps broadcasted from eddystone-URL beacons.

Mozilla Taipei Office Tour App

An indoor navigation demo app to demonstrate trilateration on Firefox OS using ibeacons.

Next Steps

• More features on MozTPE Tour App
• Set Alias for beacons
• Figure out a good way to launch app from URL broadcasted from beacons (currently hardcoded)
• Porting to Cordova?

Reference Links

• FxOS Beacon Scanner intro slides
• BLE Tools
• iBeacon
• eddystone
• Jan's demo code in jsconf