{"id":993,"date":"2022-11-11T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T09:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2022-11-11T09:42:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T09:42:37","slug":"beacons-and-wifi-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacons-and-wifi-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacons and WiFi Interference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Bluetooth and WiFi both use the 2.4GHz band, is it possible that they can interfere with one another? John-Paul Little has a old post on\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/jonpaullittle.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/07\/can-ibeacon-deployments-cause-wi-fi-interference\/\" target=\"_blank\">Can iBeacon deployments cause WI-FI\u00a0interference<\/a>.\u00a0The conclusion is no, it won&#8217;t, as there&#8217;s negligible overlap between the WiFi and Beacon frequencies:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/channels.png\" alt=\"channels\" class=\"wp-image-994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/channels.png 604w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/channels-300x95.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The 2.4GHz band is split into smaller frequencies, called channels, such that more than one technology can share the same band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, at the practical level, we have used WiFi and (many) Beacons together on many projects and we have never experienced a&nbsp;problem. Although still rare, it&#8217;s more likely that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/the-affect-of-number-of-beacons-on-the-detection-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">multiple Bluetooth devices can interfere<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Bluetooth and WiFi both use the 2.4GHz band, is it possible that they can interfere with one another? John-Paul Little has a old post on\u00a0Can iBeacon deployments cause WI-FI\u00a0interference.\u00a0The conclusion is no, it won&#8217;t, as there&#8217;s negligible overlap between the WiFi and Beacon frequencies: The 2.4GHz band is split into smaller frequencies, called channels, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacons-and-wifi-interference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beacons and WiFi Interference&#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":[1,105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8120,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/8120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}