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Solved: Implement Mobile iBeacon app in Javascript

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What is iBeacon? From hardware perspective, beacons are the BLE devices casting packets utilizing Apple's “iBeacon” setting. From Software perspective, beacons are data sent by serving devices that are recognized and processed by receivers which can be a mobile app running on iOS. iBeacon App development has had a major uproar in the past few years. Mobile iBeacon App Development in Javascript: iBeacons break into Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and has three main features: broadcasting, monitoring and ranging. Following are the things required for setting up: Basic HTML and JavaScript knowledge Estimote Beacon Evothings studio (downloadable from Evothings website) Evothings viewer (On the iOS device) Mobile iBeacon applications using JavaScript: iOS possesses iBeacon API that scans the iBeacons. Android can also scan them. iBeacon plugins are available for Apache and Cordova/PhoneGap as well. Apple, being Apple has certain limitations as to