BLE Mesh Network Combined With Advertiser Scanner Feasibility

[FormerMember]

I'm planning to implement a mesh network, where each node (ble device) also acts as a scanner, detecting BLE advertise messages. The mesh network would then forward the advertisement data packets to a gateway connected to one of the ble nodes.

A key phrase seems to the timeslot API.

I've found plenty of example source code:

github.com/.../ github.com/.../nRF51-ble-bcast-mesh

Looking at the developer zone and source, it all looks perfectly feasible so I plan to pursue this.

I see there may be issues with CPU usage, for example pstorage may be processor starved.

Any comments with regards feasibility would be appreciated.

[David Edwin]

This method is feasible, CPU usage is very low, the algorithm the ble-bcast mesh uses is Trickle. You can use the ble-bcast mesh itself as this does exactly this or you can choose to re-implement the mesh using the S130.