How many devices can connect to one beacon at same time?

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Can I use three devices like iPhone to detect distance between each devices and beacon?
Like three iPhones detect their distance to one beacon at same time?

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Hi,

Devices don't connect to beacons, they just receive radio waves broadcasted by a beacon and calculate distance (by RSSI). So, there's no limit.

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So can a beacon identify multiple unique smartphones and send unique notification based on the mac to the smartphone/ app and also send the same to the user cloud account?

Pardon me if this is too elementary, but I am not a technology person

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Hi,

You need to remember that a beacon is a very simple device :) It just broadcasts a unique Bluetooth packets. So, the beacon is unique, not a smartphone. An app on a mobile device does the whole work - identifies a beacon and displays a unique notification.

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Hi, seems my question is confusing.
What I want to ask is, here is the situation, I have one beacon and three smartphones.
Three people hold three phones and walk around indoor, can three people use app to know how far they from the same beacon at same time?

Thanks

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Hi,

Yes, they will know at the same time how far they are.

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For a bit of clarification, the Estimote is simply a transmitter. It's broadcasting an ID, and nothing else.

As an example, let's say the Estimote has an ID of 123. Three users have the app installed on their smartphones, and happen to walk into a store (where our Estimote device is). The installed app has a pre-configured list of Estimote IDs to scan for (ID 123 is one of those). As the users walk around the store, the app is constantly searching for the Estimote that has ID 123. Once it finds it (by detecting the transmission coming from the Estimote), the app does whatever it's instructed to do once discovering said Estimote.

The Estimote device itself doesn't send any data to the device and to the app, it's just yelling out "I'm an Estimote! My ID is 123". It's the user's device that scans for that signal, and the app that holds all of the instructions once it's found the signal.

I hope this helps.