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by wootest 4647 days ago
Beacons are passive. They have an ID and you're supposed to know what that ID means by some other band of communication or intrinsic knowledge.

I can't find a use case for telling the Mona Lisa that you have a dentist appointment or a pending call. You will probably have to pair with the device to get ANCS to start relaying notifications; iBeacons couldn't work if they had to require pairing.