How to Prototype an Airport
summary
Office becomes a working airport prototype using Ruby, Objective-C and hardware hacks: a Raspberry Pi and RedBear BLE Mini act as iBeacons, phones run iOS and Android apps, and a thin reading collection Rails service publishes to MQTT pub/sub while a separate Rails + PostGIS location server resolves beacons to gate/floor. Bluetooth LE proximity buckets are used (immediate/near/far, ~50m max), triangulation and z‑axis handle floors, and the system successfully shows who is past security and who is minutes away so gate decisions become data driven.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 4:42Geolocation
- 7:29Bluetooth Buzzwords
- 10:07Register For Location Updates
- 10:52Receive Location Updates
- 11:10iBeacon Spec
- 12:07Look For Beacons
- 14:10Reading Collection Server
- 15:59Location Server
- 19:55Prototyping The Airport
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