Where can i use Ble mesh

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Hello, 
 I need to implement mesh networking capability in the beacons which are ble5. Can anyone explain me how do we achieve that? 
 I want send specific data via one beacon, that has to be transmitted to the second beacon and then to the third beacon and finally to our gateway.
Along with the gateway should identify the source beacon which has actually sent the data.

bjorn-spockeli · Accepted Answer

Hi Dhaval, 
 You can create mesh networks using our nRF5 SDK for Bluetooth Mesh, see this page for more information.
However, the current Bluetooth Mesh is not really suited for battery powered devices as it is a connection-less flooding mesh, where all nodes are constantly in RX mode (listening for incoming packets). We're working on adding support for Friend Nodes and Low Power Nodes(LPN) that will allow nodes to be battery powered. 
 In addition it the Bluetooth Mesh Specification is based on Bluetooth v4.0 so you will have to add Bluetooth v5.0 Features to the Mesh profile. 
 If this is just going to be a static configuration of 3 nodes and a gateway then I think the easiest approach is to configure all the nodes to be run the peripheral and central role concurrently and setup a BLE connection between each of the nodes and then just relay the messages to the next node.

Where can i use Ble mesh

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