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[arunbm123]

hi

I am really confused For Indoor Asset Tracking which is better Nordic Mesh SDK or Thread

I see Thread Supports Cloud connectivity.

Can the device based on nRF52840 detect Beacons in its vicinity 

What is difference between nRF52840 Preview Development Kit and nRF52840 Development Kit

[Hung Bui]

Hi Arun, 

 

For asset tracking application, Bluetooth Mesh has advantages compare to Thread. 

- Bluetooth Mesh uses flooded mesh that doesn't require routing table. This makes it's flexible for a node to be dynamically change location in a network. On Thread, if a node moving around, it need to update the routing table or update to other node the parent node it attach to. 

- Bluetooth Mesh also use BLE in the bottom to communicate. So if you do BLE beaconing from your asset, it supported natively on Bluetooth Mesh. You don't have to switch between protocol (Thread <-> BLE) to do scanning if your mesh network based on Thread. 

nRF52840 Preview Development Kit uses engineering sample nRF52840 chip when the nRF52840 Development Kit uses production level chip. 

 

[arunbm123]

thanks Hung Bui for insights.

But No One replying on How to detect beacon and broadcast beacon information to border Node

[Hung Bui]

What you you mean ? Do yo have another case asking about detecting beacon ? 

We have an example showing how to do beaconing and scanning. Please have a a look at the beaconing example in the nRF5 Mesh SDK. The scanning part is in the rx_cb. 

[priya123]

Hung Bui is it possible to for scanner to scan  Non Mesh Beacon data and advertise further in this example?

[Hung Bui]

Yes. When talking about beacon, it means non-mesh beacon, in other words , normal BLE beacon.