about number of nodes that can participate in the mesh network

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Hi, team

We have been experimenting with a system using Mesh for half a year.
(The number of nodes is six.)

The impression from the customer on the site we are installing is not bad either,
so we plan to increase the number of installations to increase the scale.

At this point, we are thinking about that the bottleneck is the number of nodes that can be provisioned.

We are developing a system based on the light_switch sample, but in this sample,
we think that the maximum number that can be provisioned is 30. Is this correct?

So my question is to know how to increase the number of nodes that can be provisioned.
Also, are there any devices that are recommended to be used for provisioners? (PC, mobile phone etc.)

I examined Devzone for this, but I did not find any information.
I hope to find a good way.
Thank you.

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Our environment
・nrf52840
・mesh SDK v2.2.0
・Segger Embedded Studio
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tesc · Accepted Answer

Hi, 
 Provisioners from the SDK examples are limited by the amount of flash storage set aside for provisioner data. Depending on what variant of the nRF SoC you use you may be able to increase the number of provisioned devices, and with a phone application or a PC application you have much more space for storing provisioning data. We primarily envision the provisioner to be a smartphone app, possibly with a cloud solution backend (so that you have backup of the network in the cloud, and so that you are not depending on one single device for provisioning.) 
 Regards, Terje

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