Help to create mesh network!

[hotafrika]

Hi! I need your help! I need to create some mesh network consists of simple devices (A) which could collect mac addresses of all visible Bluetooth devices (C) and send it through similar devices to the main device (B). So: A - simple device which could collect Bluetooth mac addresses, send messages to other devices, receive messages and send it forward; B - more complex device that collects messages and sends it to the server (via wifi for example); C - any kind of Bluetooth device (smartphone, smartwatch, tablet...)

Which devices can I use as an A-devices? It should be cheap and small devices.

Help me, please! I don't know how to start.

[Matt]

Go to infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp Software Development Kit/nRF5 SDK for Mesh/nRF5 SDK for Mesh v0.10.0-alpha/Introduction to nRF5 SDK for Mesh and start from there.

[hotafrika]

Thanks. But I don't know yet which type of simple devices I can use. Can modules with nRF52832 collect bluetooth users mac addresses and send it through mesh network at the same time? For example www.aliexpress.com/.../32814091840.html

[Matt]

As long as those bluetooth users are advertising, and the skylab module is running a scanner besides the mesh stack, the scanner should be able to pick up the 6-byte addresses and forward it to some kind of gateway through the BLE mesh network. I don't know much about the mesh 0.92 sdk, but I have done similar work using the proprietary Nordic Open Mesh before.