Embedded Provisioner for BLE Mesh Network
Kamaldeep Bansal · 2020 IEEE International Conference for Innovation in Technology (INOCON) · 2020
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is the wireless communication technology available in every smart phone today. It has various advantages over other available communication technologies like low power consumption, security, versatility feature, makes it a good choice to connect with the smart devices. Extending one to one or one to many Bluetooth capabilities to many to many BLE mesh technology is bringing a big revolution in IoT ecosystem. Smart devices connected over BLE mesh network can be controlled to develop a smart home, smart office or smart industry. To make smart devices part of the mesh network, security credentials and configuration information need to be provided to the smart devices. Generally, a smart phone is used to securely transfer this information to the devices. An advanced approach has been developed to provision a BLE Mesh network without using a smart phone. Same BLE interface used in the mesh nodes is used to provision the nodes to reduce the cost and removing the need of a smart phone. This helps in making the mesh network easy to use for those who are not familiar with smart phones like old age and blind people.