How is Wirepas Mesh different from BLE Mesh?

By Wirepas

PUBLISHED 12 Mar 2021

Illustration of the positioning of BLE and low-power mesh network Wirepas

Illustration of the positioning of BLE and low-power mesh network Wirepas

	BLE Mesh	Wirepas Mesh
BLE beacon transmit	BLE Mesh Yes	Wirepas Mesh Yes
BLE beacon scanning	BLE Mesh Yes	Wirepas Mesh Yes
Flooding	BLE Mesh Yes	Wirepas Mesh Yes
Unlimited hop count	BLE Mesh Yes	Wirepas Mesh Yes
Routing	BLE Mesh No	Wirepas Mesh Yes
Battery operated routers	BLE Mesh No	Wirepas Mesh Yes
Signalling encrypted	BLE Mesh No	Wirepas Mesh Yes
Acknowledgements on network level	BLE Mesh No	Wirepas Mesh Yes
Number of channels used in one mesh network	BLE Mesh 3	Wirepas Mesh 40

Illustration of Wirepas Mesh interference tolerance and physical layer characteristics of other low power networks

Illustration of Wirepas Mesh interference tolerance and physical layer characteristics of other low power networks

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