{"id":6521,"date":"2025-11-20T17:57:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6521"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:01:52","slug":"how-many-connections-can-an-ibeacon-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/how-many-connections-can-an-ibeacon-support\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Connections Can an iBeacon Support?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We sometimes get asked how many <strong>connections<\/strong> an iBeacon can support? The answer is &#8216;1&#8217; but it&#8217;s often the right answer to the wrong intended question! The intended question is usually <em>&#8220;How many receivers can see a beacon?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beacons don&#8217;t usually connect. They just advertise and can be seen by a very large number of receivers that include phones, gateways or single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi. The beacon doesn&#8217;t even know the receivers are there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The receivers only usually connect once, during setup via an app, to set the initial beacon parameters. When connected, the beacon doesn&#8217;t advertise which prevents extra receivers from connecting. Once set up, the app disconnects and the beacon starts advertising again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/managing-bluetooth-le-advertising-congestion\/\">This post<\/a> discusses the factors relating to how many receivers can see a beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sometimes get asked how many connections an iBeacon can support? The answer is &#8216;1&#8217; but it&#8217;s often the right answer to the wrong intended question! The intended question is usually &#8220;How many receivers can see a beacon?&#8221; Beacons don&#8217;t usually connect. They just advertise and can be seen by a very large number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/how-many-connections-can-an-ibeacon-support\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Many Connections Can an iBeacon Support?&#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":[29,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521"}],"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=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10051,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions\/10051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}