We are a week away from the Techcrunch 2013 Disrupt Hackathon where we are sponsoring a $2k prize for the best developers that use our proximity SDK. If you are considering using GPS location based service APIs, we’d like for you to take a look at our platform which consumes less power and is more accurate than GPS inside of a space, as high-resolution peer to peer discovery of devices.
Here’s some info on the Disrupt Hackathon: techcrunch.com/2013/04/19/disrupt-nys-hackathon-api-workshops-to-feature-aws-box-evernote-facebook-foursquare-and-the-nyt/
At the recent LAUNCH Hackathon, where we debuted our SDK, team NewAer was on hand to help developers who used the platform and also get some great feedback from those using it. We have made and deployed subtle improvements over the past few weeks, but for Disrupt, we are adding some significant features that we are excited to pre-announce.
Here’s a list of what’s new on NewAer:
New Features for Android:
- Cell Tower Scanning, set rules when you get or leave a tower (1000’s of feet away)
- WiFi Bonjour Scanning, allows you to see Bonjour devices (on the local network)
- New Application Key Callback API, allows you to handle app key check failure gracefully
- New Group API, allows you to easily group devices and rules (for clustering of signals)
New Features for iOS:
- Devices now have signal strength measurements where applicable (BlueTooth LE)
- Independent enable/disable of scan and advertise by device family (BT, BTLE, Bonjour, WiFi AP)
- Improved low-power consumption for all device families
- New register application interface & callbacks – removed popups
- Sending events for developer to decide on messaging
- Bluetooth LE devices are now subject to a moving-average window on strength (eliminates chaotic behavior with signal strength)
- Better guarantee/handling of unique advertising names
- Report new devices instantly; report lost devices after de-flapping
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