Exploring data collection on Bluetooth Mesh networks

Bluetooth Low Energy Mesh Networks: A Survey

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) has gained significant momentum. However, the original design of BLE focused on star topology networking, which limits network coverage range and precludes end-to-end path diversity. In contrast, other competing technologies overcome such constraints by supporting the mesh network topology. For these reasons, academia, industry, and standards development organizations...

Bluetooth Mesh Network Protocol

Paper deals with simple and efficient protocols for forming and maintaining a Bluetooth network. The protocols are designed for mobile situations with frequent topology changes and for routing of translated messages between Bluetooth network members. To provide a simple, distributed solution to form an ad hoc network the protocols are based on a set of rules. The resulting topology is a mesh ne...

A Distributed Algorithm for Mesh Scatternet Formation in Bluetooth Networks

Bluetooth is a promising new wireless technology that enables portable devices to form short-range multi-hop wireless ad-hoc networks. Bluetooth Scatternet Formation is one of the challenges that needs to be resolved. In this paper, we present a new, distributed Bluetooth mesh scatternet formation algorithm. The generated scatternet is a connected mesh which, in addition to meeting the minimum ...

Opportunistic Sensor Data Collection with Bluetooth Low Energy

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) has gained very high momentum, as witnessed by its widespread presence in smartphones, wearables and other consumer electronics devices. This fact can be leveraged to carry out opportunistic sensor data collection (OSDC) in scenarios where a sensor node cannot communicate with infrastructure nodes. In such cases, a mobile entity (e.g., a pedestrian or a vehicle) equip...

Antenna Characterization for Bluetooth-Based Travel Time Data Collection