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Great to see some more public development around the iBeacon. Yesterday, Panic, showed us their project for a "punch clock" system: http://www.panic.com/blog/punchclock-fun-with-ibeacons/

I am very excited to see where this development proceeds. The usefulness is somewhat like geofencing but for smaller areas and much more accurate since the range of the iBeacon is so small (vs GPS).

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It'd be cool if Panic could clarify a point made in this article which states that delay of detecting whether or not the device has left a region is around 10-15 minutes. Seems like a sizable chunk of time for a clock-in-out app.

The article was pointing out that was one of the cons to iBeacon with iOS 7.0 but seems to have been upgraded to a few seconds in iOS 7.1 ... maybe panic requires iOS 7.1?

Based on our experience at Estimote entering the region is triggering iOS action much faster than leaving the region and this is how it works for iOS at the moment (probably phone battery optimization).

Entering region is super responsive (aprox. few seconds). Exit the region might take up to a minute+.

If you are building smart alarm-clock it is much better to detect if you entered the bathroom or kitchen than detecting if you left bedroom.

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