Border router with internet access?

RE: Border router with internet access?

bjorn-spockeli — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:00:58 GMT

If its placed indoors then I guess its easier to connect it to the Wifi/ethernet of the house(if the house has either) if its placed indoors. Otherwise I would say that the SIM card for internet connection makes sense.

RE: Border router with internet access?

embo san — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 09:49:17 GMT

I guess, it depends, either outside, or in basement or something...the nodes should be on the doors, the inner side of the doors

RE: Border router with internet access?

bjorn-spockeli — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 09:38:40 GMT

So the the router is going to be placed in between the houses outdoors?

RE: Border router with internet access?

embo san — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:34:13 GMT

We want to have the nodes in houses, and one border router would cover couple of houses, so the challenge is how should border router get internet connection, that's why we're thinking of implementing a SIM card with it

RE: Border router with internet access?

bjorn-spockeli — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:20:38 GMT

If the goal is to make the border router portable and independent of one specific Wifi network then I would say that it makes sense :)

RE: Border router with internet access?

embo san — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:16:08 GMT

Hi Bjørn, thanks for your time, I already checked and implemented the IoT examples, currently in development our Raspberry Pi is connected to the internet via LAN, but we're thinking of creating a hardware that would serve as a wifi router (having its own SIM card for internet connection) and in the same time serve as a border router, that was basically my question, if that makes sense at all?

RE: Border router with internet access?

bjorn-spockeli — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 07:46:30 GMT

Hi Embo san ,

using a Raspberry Pi as a border router for multiple nRF52 nodes communicating using 6lowpan over BLE is perfectly feasible. This is in fact what we have done with our IoT SDK, see this Infocenter page for more information on how to use the IoT SDK and set up a Raspberry Pi as a border router.

Best regards

Bjørn