Glimworm iBeacon configuraton app

A demo app for the iBeacons API in iOS 7 and a configuration tool for Glimworm iBeacons

##Thanks to Nick Toumpelis Firstly we want to give great thanks to Nick Toumpelis who developed HiBeacons (http://github.com/nicktoumpelis) and shared it in GitHub. The core of this app is HiBeacons. We have then developed onto it a configuration function for Glimworm iBeacons.

This App is a fully functional demo app for the new iBeacons API in iOS 7. The app can be used to demonstrate beacon monitoring, advertising and ranging, by toggling on/off three switches. You can easily see any beacons in the vicinity, with all their info, under the 'Detected Beacons' section.

There is a configuration button which will look for Glimworm iBeacons and allow you to set the UUID, Major, Minor Ad ratio and Range via a serial BLE connection

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Notes

###From HiBeacons

Monitoring works when the app is in the background. You will get a local notification when entering a beacon region.
The app can only monitor and range a single beacon region, but can easily be extended for multiple.
You can find and set the UUID and identifier for the beacon (and the region) at the top of NTViewController.m.
Major and minor integers are generated randomly every time a new advertising session starts.
The app will not list itself as a beacon, even if you toggle advertising on. (It's how the API works.) You need to run another instance of the app for that.
The UI doesn't show any alerts; check the console for more details.

###From Glimworm Beacon Configuration

Configuration may ask for a pairing passcord which is 6 digits

Background advertising

Beacon region advertising doesn't work in the background in iOS 7, even with the bluetooth-peripheral mode set in Info.plist.

Contact

Jonathan Carter (@jonathanrcarter) Nick Toumpelis (@nicktoumpelis)

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