Let's Talk About Beacons

Re:Let's Talk About Beacons by svarrall on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @01:22PM (#8558111)

How do you manage 1,100 beacons at once App side?

I thought Apple limited you to 20 region monitoring locations at a time, or are the beacons treated differently? Just logic around which 20 you're looking for at any one time?

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Re:Let's Talk About Beacons by nfarina on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @01:27PM (#8558145)

For region monitoring (typically used for the "notification" case) the limit of "fences" is indeed 20...it gets into a bit more detail about "what's a fence" [edit: most of the time you can assume one monitored beacon == one fence]. But for "ranging" meaning "what beacons with this UUID are around me", the system gives you a report of visible beacons every second with no (defined) upper limit.

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Re:Let's Talk About Beacons by bennyg on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @01:57PM (#8558332)

You can monitor for one region per UUID, meaning that if all of your 1100 beacons share the same proximity UUID, then you should be good.

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