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Hi recently I started working on beacons. I am using estimote beacons for my purpose. But I got a doubt whether we can turn our device into beacons. If not why.
Thank you.
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Yes all modern phones can support Bluetooth Low Energy but you have to turn on Bluetooth for anything to happen.
Beacons are Bluetooth-transmitters that send some information or advertising data that can be accepted by the smartphones and tablets within the range of the transmitter. For example, a smart bus stop can transmit route schedules, a shop can send discounts info, a museum can air the timetable of exhibitions, and so on.
All beacons, whether iBeacon, Eddystone or sensor beacons can be used with iOS and Android. The compatibility is achieved through the implementation of common Bluetooth standards on these mobile platforms.
EDIT: This is now possible in Android 5.0 and to a limited extent in Android 4.4.3+. See here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25035954/1461050
Unfortunately, this is not possible as of the latest Android 4.4.2, because Android does not support BLE peripheral mode needed to advertise as an iBeacon. See here for details.
The good news is that peripheral mode support has been added to the Android open source project, so this may be possible in a future release, perhaps Android 5.0. While Google has made no announcements, look for a release in June 2014 during the Google I/O conference.
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