RadBeacon Analyze

We used that sniffer and wireshark to grap the package and analyzed it. The situation is that:

For RadBeacons, the package shows that within 30 minutes after plug-in, there would be advertising data (which contains the MAC address, UUIDs, Major, Minor, TxPower) as well as the scan response information(which contains Local Name and Connection Information). But after 30 minutes, there is only advertising data left and you cannot get the local name or connection anymore. It's worth nothing that it's not allowed to connect to get any service/characters using any other apps but it's official IOS app, the official app only has IOS version.

And the difference between IOS and Android for get the name is that(according to our experiment, it's our analysis, we cannot find the official document to support it), IOS's getname method, first read from local name, but cashed, it will not change unless you have chance to connect the devices. And the reason why it can get name from the change of it's official app is it connects the devices when using the official app to scan(you can notice the Bluetooth icon(near by your battery of the iphone) changes to black when it scan, it means it tries to connect). And android's getname function always read the local name, it changes every time it scans.

I think it because the usage design for the RadBeacon, just like IBeacon, it's only used for positioning, they use the same Model of Beacons as IBeacon, the only difference is that they change some firmwares. For some reasons, they revise the firmware to this way. Fortunately, the RadBeacon company provides there own programming language that can revise the firmware for some reasons.