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Best way to send data from many sensors

Hi,

For an application I have a nRF51 at my disposal and I need to transfer about 3'000Bytes. I found in the documentation that the nRF51 can use the S130 SoftDevice which support BLE 4.2. The data I have to transfer come from 1 to 50 sensors and are divided in 2 categories with 3 respective 6 parameters each as follow:

Sensor No1

  • Data type A
  • --Parameter A1
  • --Parameter A2
  • --Parameter A3
  • Data type B
  • --Parameter B1
  • --Parameter B2
  • --Parameter B3
  • --Parameter B4
  • --Parameter B5
  • --Parameter B6

Sensor No2

  • Data type A
  • --Parameter A1
  • --Parameter A2
  • --Parameter A3
  • Data type B
  • --Parameter B1
  • --Parameter B2
  • --Parameter B3
  • --Parameter B4
  • --Parameter B5
  • --Parameter B6

Sensor NoX

  • Data type A
  • --Parameter A1
  • --Parameter A2
  • --Parameter A3
  • Data type B
  • --Parameter B1
  • --Parameter B2
  • --Parameter B3
  • --Parameter B4
  • --Parameter B5
  • --Parameter B6

I thought that a way to transfer these results would be to use 2 customized services (a service for type A and a service for type B) with 3 respective 6 characteristics (A1-A3 and B1-B6) each. Each characteristic should have up to 50 values. The number of values in each characteristic would indicate the number of sensors.

Has someone a better / a more suitable solution for this use case?

Thanks in advance for you ideas.

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