BLE Mesh and 6LowPan

[gsalazar]

Is it possible to setup a mesh network over BLE and use 6LowPan to enable the use of the IPV6 address space?

The goal is to setup a network without using a star topology and have multiple devices (nrf52832) connected via BLE to the Internet.

Also how is the performance of mesh and 6lowpan in terms of connecting to other devices while moving? And hopping between routers?

Thanks

[Petter Myhre]

In principle you can write software for the nRF5 that use the BLE Mesh as a transport layer for IPv6 with 6LoWPAN, but I'm not sure how you envision to connect these to the IPv6 network? Wouldn't you need a router that supports the same?

BLE Mesh is an unconnected broadcast mesh, so I'm not sure how to answer your question about performance.

[gsalazar]

Hi, The idea was to have one or more but not all of the network elements with internet connection so that all of the mesh network data could be sent to a server.

[Petter Myhre]

Do you have any more questions? Is anything still unclear?

[gsalazar]

Not really, I was just asking to check if an example might exist, since I find it interesting to create a non-star topology network that could connect to the internet. Thank you for the information

[Ankit]

Hey, I am also trying to 6lowpan over BLE mesh. Will you please share your experience that could be really helpful for me.