Provisioning GATT only device into mesh network via Proxy Node

[Karthi]

Hello,

I have the following scenario:

             * Mobile phone acts as a Provisioner and it already provisioned Device 1.

             * Device 1 has Proxy feature enabled and also supports both ADV & GATT bearer.

             * Device 2, is not in the range of Provisioner but it is visible to Device 1.

Device1 could receive Device 2's advertisement messages, it can forward it to Provisioner using Proxy feature. I added a picture below to understand the scenario better.

Since Device 2 only supports PB-GATT, I have the following questions:

  i) Is it possible to provision Device2 in this scenario?

  ii) If the answer to the above question is 'yes', then how the connection between Devices 1 & 2 is created? Who initiates it?

Thanks in Advance!!!

[Joakim Jakobsen]

Hi. 

The answer to Q1 is both yes and no. Remote provisioning is not part of the Mesh specification. However, I hope this will be added in the future. 

Nordic provides a proprietary solution to this; 
Provisioning process and APIs - Remote provisioning

Remote provisioning (PB-Remote) allows a provisioner to provision devices outside its radio range. This is done by using mesh nodes to relay provisioning messages to a node within range of the device that is to be provisioned.

More information about remote provisioning and the remote provisioning models can be found in the PB-Remote manual.

Best regards, 
Joakim

[Karthi]

Hello Joakim, 

This helps, thank you for the response!!!