Does any softdevice support Mesh, per BLE5?

[Mitch996]

Hello, I'm pretty sure the new BLE 5 will come out soon and it will integrate the mesh. And if mesh needs to be done at a protocol level, it must be the softdevice.

So, any softdevice so far support mesh? Or at least, any plans?

I'm usre nrf52840 support BLE5.

[endnode]

This would be for week-long work shop and not discussion over the forum, but we have evaluated like one year ago 5-10 low-power mesh network solutions, closed source/open source, BLE based/2.4GHz proprietary/sub-GHz and once you bring it to office floor full of people, machines, WiFi and other noise suddenly nothing was usable for our purpose. Yes, if you have Wirepas network in urban area and you want to read water meter state once a day (so you don't care if you get the value now or in 5 minutes or in 2 hours) then it's OK. If you want to get information (hundreds of bytes) over several hops reliably within seconds not minutes nothing worked for us. I hope these solutions are evolving so it will get better but things we have tried were under heavy development for 3+ years so I don't expect magic happening since then.