The
beaconGroup type is used to define the advanced characteristics for a set of Beacons. The characteristics of this set of Beacons can be defined and changed via different WLanguage properties.
Remark: For more details on the declaration of this type of variable and the use of WLanguage properties, see
Declaring a variable.
Reminder: Beacons use Bluetooth Low Energy technology to emit a triplet of values:
- UUID (Universally Unique Identifier, also known as Proximity UUID): unique identifier that generally represents the organization or the person to which the Beacon belongs.
- Major: number used to identify a group of Beacons within the same organization (same UUID)
- Minor: number used to identify a specific Beacon within the same group (same UUID and same Major number).
This triplet is used to identify the Beacon in a unique way.
by using the first value or the first two values of the triplet, you can determine whether a Beacon belongs to an organization and/or to a sub-group of this organization.
// Group of all Beacons from the same organization
group is beaconGroup
group.UUID = "f4231ab6-5ef2-6c99-4229-af6c72e0446e"
// Group of all Beacon tags belonging to the same organization with Major number 5
group is beaconGroup
group.UUID = "f4231ab6-5ef2-6c99-4229-af6c72e0446e"
group.Major = 5
// Unique Beacon
group is beaconGroup
group.UUID = "f4231ab6-5ef2-6c99-4229-af6c72e0446e"
group.Major = 5
group.Minor = 1
Remarks
Properties specific to beaconGroup variables
The following properties can be used to handle a group of Beacons:
| | |
| Property name | Type used | Effect |
|---|
| Description | Character string | Description of the group of Beacons. |
| Major | Integer | Integer included between -1 and 65535 describing the Major number of the group of Beacons. - The default property value is set to -1. This value means that the Major number will be ignored to determine whether a Beacon belongs to the group.
- If the value of this property has been specified (other than -1), the UUID property must also be specified.
|
| Minor | Integer | Integer included between -1 and 65535 describing the Minor number of the group of Beacons. - The default property value is set to -1. This value means that the Minor number will be ignored to determine whether a Beacon belongs to the group.
- If the value of this property has been specified (other than -1), the UUID and Major properties must also be specified.
|
| UUID | Character string | Identifier (GUID) common to Beacons of the group. This identifier includes 32 hexadecimal digits separated into 5 groups. Each group must contain the following number of digits: - 1st group: 8 digits.
- 2nd group: 4 digits.
- 3rd group: 4 digits.
- 4th group: 4 digits.
- 5th group: 12 digits.
The different groups are separated by a dash. Example of valid identifier: f4231ab6-5ef2-6c99-4229-af6c72e0446e This identifier is mandatory in order for the group to be valid. |
Reinitialization
You can use
VariableReset to reset the content of a
beaconGroup variable.
Functions that use beaconGroup variables