Can we run both Mesh protocol and Zigbee protocol on nrf52840?

RE: Can we run both Mesh protocol and Zigbee protocol on nrf52840?

VinhLoiIT — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 02:30:03 GMT

Thank you very much!!

RE: Can we run both Mesh protocol and Zigbee protocol on nrf52840?

Jørgen Holmefjord — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:35:02 GMT

Hi,

It will be very hard to run two separate mesh protocols on a single chip/radio. Both Bluetooth Mesh and Zigbee protocols require the nodes to be in receive mode most of the time to be ready to receive packets from other nodes. If you are going to run two full mesh protocols, you can at most be in receive mode in each of the protocols in 50% of the time, which will lead to heavy packet loss in one or both the protocols.

It could be possible to implement one mesh protocol together with a Sleepy End device (Zigbee) or Low-Power nodes (Bluetooth Mesh), but none of these features are currently supported by our stacks.

Best regards,
Jørgen

RE: Can we run both Mesh protocol and Zigbee protocol on nrf52840?

Abhay Joshi — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 08:59:55 GMT

Hello VinhLoilT,

Can you refer to Software Development Kit > nRF5 SDK for Thread and Zigbee > nRF5 SDK for Thread and Zigbee v1.0.0 > Zigbee SDK > Zigbee examples (Adding dynamic multiprotocol Zigbee support to BLE examples)?