Bluetooth® Low Energy Mesh Platform

onsemi's RSL10 Mesh Platform is a versatile and easily configurable development kit that allows for easy development of mesh networking applications based on the low-power Bluetooth 5 radio, the RSL10. The platform includes two RSL10-based mesh nodes with a variety of available smart sensors and indicators and a Strata Gateway that enables connectivity to the Strata Developer Studio™.

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) mesh networks are a many-to-many topology and use managed flooding to send data. As a result, they do not require any centralized routing or routing tables networks. The BLE mesh specifications have built in security with encryption at multiple layers so nodes in the network can relay traffic without needing to be aware of the contents of any messages. A properly placed BLE mesh network can span larger distances than traditional P2P Bluetooth communications as nodes can perform message passing by relaying packets to a destination node that is out of range of the transmitting node. This enables a variety of applications previously out of reach for Bluetooth technology.