{"id":7580,"date":"2022-05-17T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2022-05-13T09:06:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T09:06:42","slug":"detecting-moving-beacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/detecting-moving-beacons\/","title":{"rendered":"Detecting Moving Beacons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a new question at GrindSkills on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/grindskills.com\/can-bluetooth-beacon-be-detected-while-its-in-motion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Can Bluetooth beacon be detected while it\u2019s in motion?<\/a>  This deals with similar issues to our previous post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-bluetooth-to-measure-travel-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Using Bluetooth to Measure Travel Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both scenarios don&#8217;t consider the scanning and advertising periods. Our previous post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/why-bluetooth-le-scanning-doesnt-always-see-devices-the-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why Bluetooth LE Scanning Doesn\u2019t Always See Devices (the First Time) <\/a>explains the relationship between these timings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/advertisingandscanning.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/advertisingandscanning.png 546w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/advertisingandscanning-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 85vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to reliably detect moving beacons it&#8217;s necessary to scan more often and have smaller gaps between scanning. Also, if you have control over the advertising device, more frequent advertising will make detection more reliable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beaconzone.consulting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BeaconZone Consultancy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new question at GrindSkills on Can Bluetooth beacon be detected while it\u2019s in motion? This deals with similar issues to our previous post on Using Bluetooth to Measure Travel Time. Both scenarios don&#8217;t consider the scanning and advertising periods. Our previous post on Why Bluetooth LE Scanning Doesn\u2019t Always See Devices (the First &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/detecting-moving-beacons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Detecting Moving Beacons&#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":[117],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580"}],"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=7580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7581,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions\/7581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}