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We have 500+ bluetooth enabled leaf devices that are mobile within a large building complex and need to upload telemetry data at different points in the building.
I would like to position multiple IoT Edge devices throughout the building. As a leaf is roving around and it wakes up to search for a nearby IoT Edge device that is set up in translation mode running our custom module (container app) installed.
-The module (container app) communicates with the leaf device.
-The module communicates to our backend server over rest api. (Not through IoT Hub mqtt solution)
Are there any issues with this solution?
Can the BLE leaf devices connect to different Edge devices as it travels throughout the building?
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Hello @Stimpson, John ,
The number of devices does not seem to be a problem, I suppose you are thinking about BT LE (advertisement) so you are just listening to devices that pass one or more edge devices.
The modules, Docker containers need access to the BT stack.
Normally Docker containers are 'sandboxed' so the challenge is accessing that stack.