I can see some technical limitations to "hundreds", as the minimum time to send an advertisement and go back to sleep with the beacon example is around 5mS
(I got this data by running the SDK 12.2.0 beacon example and looking at the power usage using the Power Profiler Kit ( as I just happen to be looking at this on my own project)
As the beacon has an advertising period of 100mS, the max number of beacons you could simulate by setting the advertising period to zero (0) would be around 20.
In addition, you'd need to change the Mac and other data in between each transmission, which would slow things down further.
So I think its going to be impractical for you to simulate a large number of beacons in this way
In addition to that, BLE uses frequency hopping and you could not truly simulate multiple beacons transmitting simultaneously on multiple channels with just one device.
I guess, technically, it may be possible to build or buy a Software Defined Radio (SDR) transmitter which could simulate this, but I think that would be an extremely specialist piece of equipment.
I can see some technical limitations to "hundreds", as the minimum time to send an advertisement and go back to sleep with the beacon example is around 5mS
(I got this data by running the SDK 12.2.0 beacon example and looking at the power usage using the Power Profiler Kit ( as I just happen to be looking at this on my own project)
As the beacon has an advertising period of 100mS, the max number of beacons you could simulate by setting the advertising period to zero (0) would be around 20.
In addition, you'd need to change the Mac and other data in between each transmission, which would slow things down further.
So I think its going to be impractical for you to simulate a large number of beacons in this way
In addition to that, BLE uses frequency hopping and you could not truly simulate multiple beacons transmitting simultaneously on multiple channels with just one device.
I guess, technically, it may be possible to build or buy a Software Defined Radio (SDR) transmitter which could simulate this, but I think that would be an extremely specialist piece of equipment.
