{"id":4367,"date":"2019-11-11T10:56:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T10:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2019-11-11T10:56:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T10:56:51","slug":"bluetooth-5-range-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-5-range-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth 5 Range Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unseen Tech has a recent <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"whitepaper on Bluetooth 5 range (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unseen.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Bluetooth5_Test_Report_UnSeenTech.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">whitepaper on Bluetooth 5 range<\/a>. It describes some tests that were performed to assess Bluetooth 5 to see the improvements in range compared to Bluetooth 4&#8217;s typical 30m to 100m. The tests used development boards from Texas Instruments and Nordic that, used outside, achieved about 650m and 750m respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While some companies are claiming Bluetooth 5 support in products, many don\u2019t actually use Bluetooth 5 yet but instead offer an upgrade path to Bluetooth 5. Other&#8217;s do offer Bluetooth 5 but downgrade to Bluetooth 4 when communicating with Bluetooth 4 devices (e.g. smartphones) which are still the large majority of devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also some <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"ultra long range Bluetooth 4 devices (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/UltraLongRange\" target=\"_blank\">ultra long range Bluetooth 4 devices<\/a> that include output power amplifers that can achieve ranges of hundreds of metres and we have one <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"USB powered beacon (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/UltraLongRange\/FSC-BP109\" target=\"_blank\">USB powered beacon<\/a> that reaches up to 4Km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unseen Tech has a recent whitepaper on Bluetooth 5 range. It describes some tests that were performed to assess Bluetooth 5 to see the improvements in range compared to Bluetooth 4&#8217;s typical 30m to 100m. The tests used development boards from Texas Instruments and Nordic that, used outside, achieved about 650m and 750m respectively. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-5-range-tests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bluetooth 5 Range Tests&#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":[122,107],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367"}],"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=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}