Feasibility of UART communication between phone and BLE device in a highly dense environment

[dennyhle]

Hello. I am developing an Android app and Arduino BLE device that will need to work in a very population-dense environment.  Think a very large music festival with thousands of other phones around. Almost none of these people will be using their phones but their phones will still be broadcasting their bluetooth.  This is my first time working with Bluetooth/BLE and haven't had a chance to test it in such an environment yet. Do you foresee problems being able to send short uart messages between my phone and the BLE device?

[Kenneth]

Hello,

This should not be a problem, both due to frequency hopping and also the fact that the thousands of people won't stand on top of eachother. You may compare it to the thousands of people talking with eachother, since they are not standing on top of eachother, they will still be able to communicate. You may also compare it with the CES every year, it still works even with thousands of engineers using wireless gadgets.

Best regards,
Kenneth