Testing out BLE beacons with BeaconDB

Re:Testing out BLE beacons with BeaconDB by Atotalnoob on Saturday October 25, 2025 @08:53PM (#45708201)

1hz seems slow to me. A company that I worked at was designing robust industrial, apple airtag/tiles with a specific application 8 or 9 years ago.

BLE operates on a very crowded frequency. WiFi, Bluetooth, etc are all on the same frequency and spamming out thousands of packets constantly.

We had to triple our broadcast frequency and period in order to reliably detect a beacon within 5 seconds of a phone being in range.

We settled on 200ms frequency and broadcast for 15ms.

Our decide had a 10 year battery life on a couple coin batteries…

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Re:Testing out BLE beacons with BeaconDB by shibapuppie on Saturday October 25, 2025 @10:18PM (#45708616)

I find it very intriguing you landed on 200ms, considering the default beacon rate of the majority of WiFi access points is 100ms. Clients do not like going much longer before you start dropping beacons and discoverability tanks... which is shown in your results. Genuinely fascinating.

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Re:Testing out BLE beacons with BeaconDB by anitil on Sunday October 26, 2025 @05:40PM (#45715428)

That answers my question perfectly, thankyou!

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Re:Testing out BLE beacons with BeaconDB by mrheosuper on Sunday October 26, 2025 @11:58PM (#45717276)

>We had to triple our broadcast frequency

What do you mean by this ?

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Re:Testing out BLE beacons with BeaconDB by teruakohatu on Monday October 27, 2025 @02:15AM (#45717899)

I think they meant triple how often they broadcast, not using a radio frequency x3 higher on the spectrum.

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