Nordic BLE Mesh

Nordic offers a complete solution for the Bluetooth mesh specification with the nRF5 SDK for mesh and the nRF51 series and nRF52 series SoCs. It provides a powerful solution for product developers to take advantage of the new capabilities introduced by Bluetooth mesh. The nRF5 SDK for Mesh is intended to be used as a foundation for any Bluetooth mesh product development.

The addition of mesh networking capabilities to Bluetooth low energy (BLE) enables extended range, increases the number of nodes, and a many-to-many (m:m) communication topology. In a Bluetooth mesh network, every received packet is broadcasted by relays, until the packet is received by the destination node (a so called managed flooding mesh), a simple but effective way of spreading information across the mesh network with no single point of failure. The mesh functionality is a significant update and enables new applications for Bluetooth in smart home, lighting, beaconing, and asset tracking applications.

Bluetooth mesh network topology which can be created with the nRF5 SDK for mesh.