At a high level, network traffic is relatively lightweight. As a general estimate, you can expect approximately 1KB per minute per Area of Interest (AoI), depending on configuration and use case.
A Quick Overview:
A few further points to help provide context...
- Data transmission varies depending on the type of data being captured (e.g. simple counts vs. more detailed positional data such as XY coordinates).
- Traffic is calculated per AoI rather than per sensor, meaning a desk-level deployment (with more granular tracking) will typically generate more data than a meeting room setup.
- Stitching or higher-resolution use cases (e.g. frequent XY updates) will result in slightly higher traffic volumes.
- During initial deployment and commissioning, network activity may be temporarily higher due to configuration, validation, and testing processes.
- Firmware updates occur infrequently (typically 1–2 times per year) and will generate higher traffic during those periods, but these are planned and coordinated in advance.
- Outside of these scenarios, sensors operate with consistent, low-bandwidth communication.
In practice, message sizes can be smaller (circa 250 bytes), but we recommend using the ~1KB per minute per AoI estimate as a conservative baseline for planning purposes.