Connect to closest Central

[ran]

Hi, 

Let's say I have 2 nrf52 Centrals in a room , now - I'm adding a peripheral and I'd like it to connect to the central with the better RSSI ( out of the 2 ) 

My idea involves role switching and seems pretty complicated. 

Thanks, 

Ran 

[ran]

Just to complete the picture - the metering data goes up to the cloud. In the installation I've described - the star central is equipped with LTE modem . ( gateway ) 

So , If I'll be using Mesh , I will have to define a gateway that all nodes "publish" to him ?

Also -  I will need to connect to each one of the nodes from a mobile phone and set\get configuration

(probably over NUS ) , will that be a problem ?

(I see that in latest mesh sdk, proxy node was remove from lightning client, available only on server ).

[awneil]

ran said:

So , If I'll be using Mesh , I will have to define a gateway that all nodes "publish" to him ?

Yes - that is a standard concept in meshes

ran said:

  I will need to connect to each one of the nodes from a mobile phone and set\get configuration

Not necessarily.

You can provision over the mesh - again, a standard concept in meshes

[ran]

" I will need to connect to each one of the nodes from a mobile phone and set\get configuration" - this is regardless of Mesh but operational , for example elec. meter S\N and initial reading .

This is per meter configuration and will have to be done using Tech, App running on iOS\Android 

[awneil]

So that's your design decision - not a requirement or restriction of using a mesh.