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Sensor network using Gazell peripherals and BLE for PC connection

I would like to create a sensor network consisting of up to 17 nodes, I've been collecting a lot of information about means of communication between them and a computer and I came to conclusion using Gazell for collecting data from all nodes into a a central node, which then would connect to a PC via BLE for interaction would be the best solution. But then the central node would have to be both a Gazell master for communicating with the rest of the sensors and a BLE slave for PC interaction. The information from the sensors has to be sent to the PC in real-time.

Here's a little draft I made (forgive me for lacking any sort of graphic design abilities) image description

How would I do that? I'm still very new to all this and I'm not even sure if it's a viable solution. Maybe I should just ditch the whole idea and go for something entirely else? Any sort of advice would be highly appreciated. Thank you

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  • Thank you, I've read about the timeslot API and it's all clear for me now. Except I ran into another question: how do I connect all those sensors to a single central? In the draft I made I was assuming I could make the sensors work as both a host and a device at the same time, because of the Gazell connection limit which is only 8 devices. Or am I misunderstanding it and the device number isn't the actual limit here but the ammount of pipes? If that's the case could I have like 2 devices per pipe? Are there any examples of anything like this? Thank you again

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