{"id":4315,"date":"2019-10-25T09:06:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T09:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4315"},"modified":"2023-05-04T20:10:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:10:59","slug":"bluetooth-range-estimator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-range-estimator\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth Range Estimator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Bluetooth SIG, who create the specifications for Bluetooth, have a new <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Bluetooth Range Estimator (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bluetooth.com\/bluetooth-technology\/range\/#estimator\" target=\"_blank\">Bluetooth Range Estimator<\/a> that takes into account the environment, transmit power, antenna gain and received gain to provide an estimated range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluetooth.com\/bluetooth-technology\/range\/#estimator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bluetoothrangeestimator-1024x567.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bluetoothrangeestimator-1024x567.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bluetoothrangeestimator-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bluetoothrangeestimator-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bluetoothrangeestimator.png 1072w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s also an associated blog post on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"3 Common Myths About Bluetooth (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bluetooth.com\/blog\/3-common-mythsabout-bluetooth\/\" target=\"_blank\">3 Common Myths About Bluetooth<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of beacons, the range usually relates to how they are powered. The beacons with smaller CR2032 batteries tend to be designed for ranges up 50m. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Larger CR2477 powered beacons (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/LongRange\" target=\"_blank\">Larger CR2477 powered beacons<\/a> usually reach about 100m. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/UltraLongRange\" target=\"_blank\">AA battery beacons or those with power amplifers<\/a> reach hundreds of metres. and some USB beacons can reach <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"up to 4Km (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/usb-beacons\/FSC-BP109\" target=\"_blank\">up to 4Km<\/a>. These ranges are outdoors. Indoors, there&#8217;s often radio reflections and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"blocking (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/what-can-block-beacon-signals\/\" target=\"_blank\">blocking<\/a> that reduce range. Beacon orientation can also affect range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bluetooth SIG, who create the specifications for Bluetooth, have a new Bluetooth Range Estimator that takes into account the environment, transmit power, antenna gain and received gain to provide an estimated range. There&#8217;s also an associated blog post on 3 Common Myths About Bluetooth. In terms of beacons, the range usually relates to how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-range-estimator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bluetooth Range Estimator&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8612,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions\/8612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}