Bluetooth low energy master-slave system

[Shrijit Mukherjee]

Hi,

1. I am researching BLE product for a similar task (1 central node with 4-6 concurrent slaves). I have looked up other vendors (TI, CSR etc) and come to a conclusion that nRF51822 with S120 can answer this problem (S120 being central protocol stack solution with up to 8 simultaneous slave connections). Do you agree?

2. Being a SoC, I assume that the system complexity will be lower from prototype development time point of view, too. Please would you share your view on this, as based on this, I would like to order a starter + development kit. Do you agree?

3. Will the development kit come with some sort of demo software to evaluate the connection?

[Ole Morten]

As I said in the comment, your use case should be covered with the S120. This question cover the differences between the Development and Evaluation Kits. You'd have to order kits from one of our distributors, or an online store.

Once you have a kit, you can download the nRF51 SDK, which includes example applications covering both the S120 Central softdevice and the S110 Peripheral softdevice.