Originally Posted by
Secret Squirrel
Definitely the "Germ".
The system to request a pairing is already available without having the cell phone user to download an app.
There, and pretty much
universally disabled. Phones don't
receive pairing requests, except in the peer-to-peer case, it's the phone that makes the request of the headset or speaker or whatever after a scan to discover it. Otherwise the phone is in a non-discoverable mode and there's no way to make a request of it. To do a peer-to-peer pairing the user first has to go into a settings menu and get the phone in an unusual discoverable mode, which then times out.
If this wasn't the case (when it wasn't in very early days) then annoying spam messages would be an issue; apparently at one point very early there was something that actually spread virus-like at a sporting event.
You could tag the Bluetooth request by naming your hardware " Danger- Look up". This would be a concept that needs to be diagrammed and then fleshed out. Do you need a final hardware project or a power point presentation? I am assuming that this is like a "Senior project".
First the user has to "look down" at the device - which is the exact opposite of what you want.
You could do a proof of concept with Bluetooth LE beacons and a custom app, but you'd want an
audio queue or recorded message, not a visible notification.