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Building beacon-enabled apps with Oracle MCS
The document discusses building location-aware applications using Oracle Mobile Cloud Services, highlighting the significance of location-based services and beacon technology in various industries. It covers use cases, technologies, and Oracle's offerings for developing mobile applications that leverage these features, including demos and an explanation of the beacon management console. Additionally, it outlines upcoming enhancements and the integration of services within Oracle's mobile cloud platform.
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Building beacon-enabled apps with Oracle MCS
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- 3. Copyright © 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 3 Agenda • Introduc@on to Loca@on-Based Services and Beacons • Use Cases with demo’s • Using Oracle MCS to build LBS apps
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- 6. Copyright © 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 6 Endless opportuni3es Loca@on-Based Services • Proximity Marke@ng • Loca@on Guides – City, Museum, Campus, Airport, etc • Car Parking Assistance • Hospital Nursing • Hotel Check-In • Dinner Services • Fraud Preven@on
- 7. Copyright © 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 7 Loca@on-Based Services – Some Technology Op@ons • Global Posi@oning System (GPS) – Worldwide coverage – Accuracy 3-8 meters • WIFI – Signal Strength WIFI Access Points • Beacon Technology – Small device sending low-energy bluetooth signal – Micro-proximity accuracy ( < 1 meter) – No internet connec@on needed
- 8. Copyright © 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Bluetooth Low Energy ‘BLE’ • Op@mized for small bursts of data. • Impressive bafery Life • Some vendors add sensors • iBeacons: Apple’s protocol for using beacons • AltBeacon: OS beacon specifica@on • Eddystone: Google’s open beacon format • Iden@ty (iBeacons) – UUID: B9407F30-F5F8-466E-AFF9-25556B57FE6D – Major: 15987 (op@onal) – Minor: 49849 (op@onal) More About Beacons 8
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- 17. Copyright © 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Understanding iBeacon Regions, Ranging & Monitoring 17 • Beacon Region – Beacons are grouped into regions – NOT related to geographic proper@es • Monitoring – Scans beacon regions: enter/exit region events – Works in foreground, background – Works even when app is killed • Ranging – Scans individual beacons – Works only in foreground – More granular: returns list of beacons in range with es@mated distance
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- 20. Copyright © 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 20 Demo’s • Beacon Management Plamorm • Oracle HQ Campus Crawler • Smart Shopping • Hospital Nursing
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- 43. Copyright © 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Centralise mobile integra@on in the cloud • Design mobile specific APIs – Shape & expose services and APIs • Pre-built mobile services – Push no@fica@ons – File Storage – Database – Offline synchroniza@on – Loca@on services • Integrated security Oracle Mobile Cloud Service Making mobile simple
- 44. Copyright © 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Analyze business impact • Client agnos@c development tools • Diagnos@c and logging • Built-in con@nuous delivery SDLC – Development, stage, produc@on areas – Artefact versioning Oracle Mobile Cloud Service Making Mobile Simple
- 45. Copyright © 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. MOBILE APPLICATION FRAMEWORK Others Mobile APIs / SDKs SECURE MOBILE CLOUD SERVICE Oracle Mobile Cloud Service Users Built-in APIs Offline Sync No3fica3ons User Mgmt Objs Storage Public Cloud Connectors 3rd Party API Data Shaping Custom Logic Orchestrate ON-PREMISE PACKAGED APPLICATIONS CUSTOM APPLICATIONS CLOUD Custom API Oracle Cloud Enterprise SaaS On-premise Outside-in, Mobile First Inside-out, Service first Analy3cs Diagnos3cs Usage Engagement Con3nuous Development Monitoring SDLC ICS OSB / SOA Na3ve
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- 54. Copyright © 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Today’s demos are built against Oracle MCS 1.2 • New Oracle MCS 2.0 release has na@ve support for loca@on-based services – Support for places (loca@ons), devices (like beacons) and assets • Future MCS versions (plans might change, nothing commifed) – Extend loca@on-based support – Include beacon management console 54 MCS Beacon Management – Current Status
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- 57. Copyright © 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Get Oracle MCS (trial) license • Use new Client Data Model (CDM) in Oracle MAF 2.3.1 – CDM consumes MCS Beacon Plamorm RAML file – Auto-generates offline persistence layer with beacon config data • Use Cordova iBeacon Plugin – Range/Monitor for Beacons – Google for “oracle ibeacon maf” 57 MCS Beacon Management – Geung Started Building a beacon-enabled client app using Oracle MAF
- 58. Copyright © 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Support for any type of communica@on – Push no@fica@on, Info pages, video, audio • Type of communica@on configured server-side – No need to redeploy app when beacon-driven communica@on needs to change • User preferences for tailored communica@on • Analy@cs to provide insight in beacon effec@veness • Simple REST API to quickly build beacon-enabled apps • Beacon management console for easy administra@on 58 MCS Beacon Management – Summary