Mesh Relay

[arunbm123]

hi

I want to design Nodes for asset tracking. These Nodes will be spread out in a building. A moving object will have a BLE -Advertosor. The Nodes will detect Moving object and  pass the information to BL-WIFI Gateway.

1) Is it Necessary that provision should be withing range of Device to provision the Device?

2) The Relay Nodes should also detect the Advertiser and capture its ID and send this information to BL-WIFI Gateway.

3) The BL-WIFI Gateway should also be provisioned

Any help will be appreciated

[Bjørn Kvaale]

1) There is a remote provisioning example in the mesh sdk, which allows you to provision a device that is not in radio contact with the provisioner via the Mesh network.

2) Should be possible

3) Should be possible to provision a gateway, although you would need to write the code yourself, as there is currently no example code for a mesh gateway.

[Nakul Nair]

So if I have to scan for beacons and relay the info of beacons across a mesh..so as mentioned above do I need to use the remote provisioning example and how to use NUS to print the data which is received in provisioner. 

[Bjørn Kvaale]

If the furthest devices to be provisioned in the mesh network are out of range of the provisioner & you do not want to move the provisioner around to provision all of the devices in the mesh network, it could be a good idea to use the remote provisioning example. To print the data from the provisioner, you can either use an RTT viewer on your computer connected to the provisioner via usb or you can take a look at combining the provisioner example with uart (similar to this case). It is probably a better idea to take a look at this link first though & try this.

[Nakul Nair]

Is it neccessary to use BLE+Mesh because in my application I only need to scan and not initiate a connection