Challenges in an IBeacon App Development

An iBeacon App Development Company gives you the correct and most recent technological solution for your iBeacon app. iBeacon App Development, which was the origin of Apple, is providing help to the brands to expand its customer base, grow their business. It has also re-created the Retail sector by making the shopping online as well as converting the physical store to digital stores.

The increasing use of iBeacon technology has brought the focus of many business people to enter in the area of Mobile App Development of the beacon industry. There are a lot of challenges that app developers have to face while creating a beacon application. 

Major challenges are detailed below: 

1) Inconsistent Signals: The first challenge is that of inconsistent signals. Beacon app work is involved with the use of external radios that transmit signals and so it can be messy to deal with. The main problem is that the iBeacon app has to locate the distance of the beacon device which is difficult as the radio waves spring back near a physical place and are influenced by the user's presence at the locations. Also, the gadget control and temperature influence the signals of the beacon and the quality of the signal is different depending upon the hardware manufacturers.

2) Variable Frequency: The frequency of all the beacons is not the same and it is not necessary that they transmit signals of equal power. Hence, it is a challenge for the developers to keep in mind that beacon must notify the user when they are in proximity in spite of signals being weak. 

3) Needs Permission: The beacon application to work properly needs the support of the beacon device and also the user has to enable his Bluetooth and location on his mobile device. Once the beacon is in near distance to the user the authorization is required of the user.  

4) Tracking while Triangulating: Another problem which developers encounter with is difficulty in tracking while triangulating. Triangulating is when 3 beacons are very close to each other and a user comes in the same surrounding area of all the three beacons. The problem arises for the app to track the range of the user and then send notifications or messages accordingly. 

5) Difficult to Check Message Receiving: There is no communication between the user and the iBeacon as iBeacon is a one-way radio. It is hard to know that the user is getting notified or is not receiving any messages. 

6) Deciding which Features to Add: Adding too many features in an application can destroy the experience of using a good app. Hence, the developers need to add only those features which are good to add and send messages to the users as per their taste and preferences. 

7) Difficult to Manage Security: As beacon involves both the hardware and software components and it also involves the both the user’s mobile device and authentication keys in order to modify the settings on Beacon so it is tough to manage the security. 

8) Navigating in the App Store: This challenge can be overcome by the following ways: 

⮚ The functions and the working of the App must be explained in public description as well as review notes. 

⮚ A demonstration can also be given in the form of the video so that the user can see the practical working of the application. 

⮚ A battery use disclaimer must also be provided. 

9) Privacy Management: There are chances when the users having the same interest are in proximity of a single beacon device, in such cases it is difficult to shield the privacy of the user’s identity while providing the list of users with filtered data.