NRF51 DK and NRF51 Dongle

RE: NRF51 DK and NRF51 Dongle

Einar Thorsrud — Fri, 25 May 2018 10:16:11 GMT

Nordic has legacy mesh SDK for nRF51, but it is non-standard. I strongly suggest you consider going for the nRF52 and the nRF5 SDK for Mesh which has support for the official Bluetooth mesh.

Regarding the timeline it depend on a number of factors, what you want to make, to what extent you will write software yourself or use existing solutions (such as the nRF5 SDK for mesh) and the number and experience of your developer(s). I do not think me or anyone else on this forum can give you a sensible estimate based on the information we have.

RE: NRF51 DK and NRF51 Dongle

Ri23 — Thu, 24 May 2018 16:18:37 GMT

Thank you for the reply. So to apply our own logic and implement the mesh Network with NRF51, will approx. take about 4-5 months ?

And I can still develop the Mesh network with nRF51 right ?

Sorry for the questions. I am completely new and wanted to get a clear picture ?

RE: NRF51 DK and NRF51 Dongle

Einar Thorsrud — Wed, 23 May 2018 12:23:31 GMT

Hi,

You are probably looking for the nRF5 SDK for Mesh. You should note though that this has deprecated nRF51, so you should consider using nRF52 for new product development. (I believe that the price nRF52810 should be comparable to the nRF51 if the project is cost sensitive.)
All development with nRF devices require a good deal of programming.
It is difficult to say how long time you will need to get the mesh network up and running, but there are a number of examples accompanying the nRF5 SDK for Mesh which should help you get up to speed. The documentation is found on Infocenter.