Zone vBLE Notifications

Mist SDK provides you proximity related and area related notification. Using this you can provide contextual information to your user based on the proximity and area they are in. vBeacon: vBeacon are Mist patented technology using which you can provide proximity-related information and the good thing is you can move this vBeacon where ever you want to place them in your floorplan and never have to worry about any battery or relocation problems.

You can use ranging API for vBeacon similar to what you can do for real beacons.

You will get the vBeacon notification in the following callback

onNotificationReceived(Date dateReceived, String message)

The type of message let you know whether that is for vBeacon or zone, for vBeacon its ‘zone-event-vb’

For more detail, you can see the implementation in the sample app here

Zone: Zone is a custom area defined on the Mist portal to get the notification to provide vicinity related information to your customer.

You will get the zone notification in the following callback

onNotificationReceived(Date dateReceived, String message)

The type of message let you know whether that is for vBeacon or zone, for zone its ‘zones-events’

For more detail, you can see the implementation in the sample app here