Is anyone else getting into mesh networking capabilities of the esp32 & esp8266 based boards? With a bin full of solar panels and another full of lipos as well as a few dozen of these laying around (as well as a cpl dozen raspberry pi) I am trying to figure the most low power, practical, wide range mesh network to establish. Something that we can implement with 5v or less in the circumstances of say power blackout conditions to cover a small town.
Any and all ideas welcome. Adafruit
I’m not really sure about this, but I’ve seen it written on the web that
A Mesh network is a group of connected devices on a network that acts as a single network. ESP-Mesh is completely different from the traditional mesh setup. In an ESP mesh, nodes or individual devices can be connected to their neighboring devices at the same time. Individual nodes can be connected to multiple nodes and they can relay data from one node to another. This process is not only efficient, but also redundant. If one of the nodes fails, data from the other nodes can reach its destination without any problem. This also opens up the possibility of achieving interconnection without the need for a central node, which greatly extends the reach of the mesh network. With these features, the network is less likely to be connected because the total number of nodes in the network is not limited by a single central node.
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