Hardware needed for iOS 7 iBeacon?

iphone bluetooth ios7 ibeacon
user717452 picture user717452 · Oct 8, 2013 · Viewed 9.9k times · Source

I am looking to develop some apps that will take advantage of iBeacon in my business, but need to first know what all hardware I will need and where I can get it from to utilize this.

Answer

bbjay picture bbjay · Oct 9, 2013

You can pre-order some beacons from estimote.

If you want to develop your own custom hardware, I would suggest to use a BLE mini prototyping board from RedBearLab with their iBeacon firmware.

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