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iBeacons: API for the Real World? Rheinallt Jones, Tom Pert, Dafydd James
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iBeacons: API for the Real
World?
Rheinallt Jones, Tom Pert, Dafydd James
People’s Collection Wales
Casgliad y Werin Cymru
● Partnership between cultural heritage bodies in Wales
● Full of photographs, sound archives, videos, articles
● Accessible for anyone to contribute material
● Important platform for collaboration
The vision is not only to allow users to discover and view
the online content; but also to encourage and enable
individuals to engage and contribute to the collections.
People’s Collection Wales: Technology and Innovation
People’s Collection Wales: Technology and Innovation
Locly: a content platform for creating
and interacting with beacons
Beacon creators
Create engaging in-
the-moment
experiences easily
with content cards.
Beacon users
Find and interact
with bite-sized
content that's
relevant to where
you are.
Bluetooth LE Devices
Transmit Small Packets
of Data
Which wakes up its
‘listener’ to let it
know it’s there
3-10m 70m
Which calculates
your proximity to
the Beacon
Bluetooth LE: What is it?
5cm
Estimote Kantakt Do it yourself
‘Coin’ kit
Types of iBeacons
Step 1: Set up the project
● Name your project
● Set up your ‘places’ (e.g. display, exhibit)
● Linking your places to beacons
Creating beacon content
Step 2: Create your content
● Create ‘content cards’ for each place
● Create widgets (using Bookry)
● Publish cards
Creating beacon content
Step 3: Test and publish
● Place and calibrate your beacons
● Download and test app
● Publish project
Creating beacon content
Content Cards
WH
ITE
LA
BE
L
Standard
Video
Sound / Audio
Event Schedule
Quiz
Chat
Map
Widget
RSS
Web Page
Poll Feedback
Photos iTunes U
Analysis: Mapping usage
Beacon learning zones
Using beacons for
ad-hoc group work
Using beacons
for content
structuring
beacon 1
‘For’ the Stirke
forcards
forcards
forcardsA
forcards
Aforcards
Aforcards
Aforcards
beacon 2
‘Against’the Strke
againstcards
againstcards
againstcards
Aagainstcards
Aagainstcards
Aagainstcards
Aagainstcards
Using projects
in the classroom
Pupils move around
to view cards from
multiple beacons
A A A
A A A
Virtual Museum
classroom beacon
Key stage 2 Project
Amaths teacher
Ahistory teacher
mathscards
mathscards
mathscards
mathscards
mathscards
mathscards
Amathscards
Amathscards
Amathscards
Amathscards
Amathscards
Amathscards
Key stage 3 Project
historycards
historycards
historycards
historycards
historycards
historycards
Ahistorycards
Ahistorycards
Ahistorycards
Ahistorycards
Ahistorycards
Ahistorycards
Maths teacher
arrives. Pupils
automatically see the
maths cards.
History teacher
arrives. Pupils
automatically see
the history cards.
Using projects in the
extended learning
environment
Teacher visiting
museum changes
beacon content
Interpreting Intent: Detecting behavior around beacons
This is Peredur: Engineer, facilitator and moving beacon
Culture Beacon: A framework
● Brings together multiple museum &
heritage iBeacon tours in one place
● Just one app to download for many site visits
● Easy and fast way to start using iBeacon
technology
● Collaborating with the University of Leicester
to ensure that published material reaches a
standard criteria
● Cross-marketing between
members
‘Recoding the Museum’
EventsRetail
Venues Groups
Education The
internet of
things
Browser for the real world
Rheinallt Jones
Tom Pert
Dafydd James
www.culturebeacon.org
Thank you!
Diolch yn fawr!
