Understand Mesh in Bluetooth

[anilkunchalaece]

Hi,

I'm completely new to the Bluetooth trying to understand a thing or two.

Bluetooth 5 comes with Mesh support and NRF52 supports it with Mesh SDK.

Now my Questions are

1. whats the difference between this mesh and BLE4.0 Mesh (nrf softmesh  and ble-MESH) ?

2. are there any simulators available for bluetooth 5 from nordic or others

[tesc]

Hi,

Bluetooth Mesh is not part of Bluetooth 5. Rather, it is a separate specification (and the current version is based on Bluetooth 4.)

1. nRF51-ble-bcast-mesh, also called OpenMesh, is a predecessor to our nRF5 SDK for Mesh. That means you should use our nRF5 SDK for Mesh instead.

I have not seen this ble-mesh that you linked to before. It looks like they have a finished mesh node product, but it is hard to tell exactly what they offer from their web page.

2. I am not aware of any simulators for Bluetooth. What kind of simulator are you looking for? Perhaps there are others here that know more about this.

Regards,
Terje

[anilkunchalaece]

Hi,

Thanks for reply.

I am looking for simulators to check mesh QoS,Latency, throughput and other parameters.

few reports i came across are ericssion and silabs. si labs used their hardware but iam not sure about the ericssion report.

I came across this (I haven't tested it) for BLE simulation.

[tesc]

Hi,

Thank you for the clarification. Some of what you mention is not simulators, rather it is tests using physical hardware, but from what I understand you are still looking for simulators that can give you theoretical values for the parameters that you mention.

I will leave it to the community to come with suggestions.

Regards,
Terje