About - Catalog of Bluetooth® Mesh Products - BluKo
Motivation
When we first started developing apps for Bluetooth® Mesh, we realized that there are only very few off-the-shelf products that you can easily buy online. All we wanted are a couple of products that we could easily use to get acquainted with the technology, the tooling, SDKs, libraries, etc.
So we started buying products that claimed to use some kind of Bluetooth® mesh technology. Many of those products didn’t actually support the mesh protocol standardized by the Bluetooth® SIG, but instead used some proprietary version of it, which is not what we’ve been looking for.
We’ve manually tested those products and wrote down our findings. Since we think this might be valuable information - especially for developers new to Bluetooth® Mesh - we’ve decided to publish our findings in a structured and searchable form.
Disclaimer
The information on this page is based on our own testing done with very limited resources. The data might be incomplete and/or wrong. Use it at your own risk. We do not accept any liability for the correctness and/or completeness of the contents of this page. Please let us know if you think we've made a mistake and we'll look into it. Also let us know if there are products that we should add.
About the project
This website should serve as a resource for Bluetooth® Mesh product specifications and interoperability data, helping developers to make informed decisions when building mesh networks. It can be used to answer the following questions:
- What is a cheap Bluetooth® Mesh product that I can simply buy online?
- I need to test my implementation of a ‘Generic Battery Client’. Is there a product that I can buy which does support the ‘Generic Battery Server’ model?
- What companies generally offer standardized Bluetooth® Mesh products?
- What are the best practices in designing the elements and models of a Bluetooth® Mesh product? How do others do it?
- Which two products should I buy if I want them to interact with each other?
- And hopefully more :)
About Bluetooth® Mesh
Unlike classic Bluetooth® and Bluetooth® LE, Bluetooth® Mesh connects smart products in a network. Products forward messages to each other, enabling communication beyond direct Bluetooth® range across hundreds of meters.
Through Bluetooth® SIG standardization, products from different manufacturers can communicate. A dimmer from one vendor can control a fan from another, reducing dependencies and enabling sustainable systems.
About Kodira
Kodira GmbH is a German software development company. We are experts in developing software to setup, configure and monitor Bluetooth® Mesh networks. We do that for Apple iOS, Google Android and Linux based systems.
As Bluetooth® SIG members, we gain early access to standards and provide optimal support for complex environments with hundreds of products.