speeding up data transfer rate from ios app to arduino with ble shield

[kckent34]

Hi all,

I'm building an application for IOS & Red bear lab BLE shield and Arduino. The phone acts as a remote control for a toy car that I built . It works decently, but I would like the response time to be faster. I want to make the data transfer rate faster between the phone and the arduino. Please let me know if there is any way I could speed up the data transfer rate. It takes around 1/4 a second to get the data from the phone to the arduino

This is How I am sending the data from the phone

UInt8 pktbuf[6];

    pktbuf[0] = SYNC_BYTE;
    pktbuf[1] = _direction;
    pktbuf[2] = _angle;
    pktbuf[3] = (int)(self.sldr.value * 255);
    pktbuf[4] = _lightValue;
    pktbuf[5] = _hornValue;
    
    
NSData *d = [[NSData alloc]initWithBytes:pktbuf length:6];
    
[ble write:d];

How i am recieving the data on arduino

*while(ble_available()){

if(0xa5 == ble_read()){
  angleDirection = ble_read();
  angle = ble_read();
  motorSpeed = ble_read();
  lightValue = ble_read();
  hornValue = ble_read();

} }*

Any ideas or different ways to send data to speed this up?