Make mesh network for street light monitoring system using arduino

Projects General Guidance
1

I want to make real life Street light monitoring system.Control street light I want mesh network .please someone tells me can I make mesh network of nrf24l01 ?

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https://tmrh20.github.io/RF24Mesh/

3

I want use this for street light control. I will send signal to light also I will send light working condition to server.so I am using
nrf24l01 module.I try for one way communication .this work successfully. But I can't communicate bidirectionally .please help me.

Transmitter code:

   #include <SPI.h>
#include <nRF24L01.h>
#include <RF24.h>
#define led 12
RF24 radio(7, 8); // CNS, CE
const byte addresses[][6] = {"00001", "00002"};
boolean buttonState = 0;
void setup() {
  pinMode(12, OUTPUT);
  radio.begin();
  radio.openWritingPipe(addresses[1]); // 00001
  radio.openReadingPipe(1, addresses[0]); // 00002
  radio.setPALevel(RF24_PA_MIN);
}
void loop() {
  delay(5);
  radio.stopListening();
  int potValue = analogRead(A0);
  int angleValue = map(potValue, 0, 1023, 0, 180);
  radio.write(&angleValue, sizeof(angleValue));
  delay(5);
  radio.startListening();
  while (!radio.available());
  radio.read(&buttonState, sizeof(buttonState));
  if (buttonState == HIGH) {
    digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
  }
  else {
    digitalWrite(led, LOW);
  }
}

Receiver code:

#include <SPI.h>
#include <nRF24L01.h>
#include <RF24.h>
#include <Servo.h>
#define button 4
RF24 radio(7, 8); // CNS, CE
const byte addresses[][6] = {"00001", "00002"};
Servo myServo;
boolean buttonState = 0;
void setup() {
  pinMode(button, INPUT);
  myServo.attach(5);
  radio.begin();
  radio.openWritingPipe(addresses[0]); // 00002
  radio.openReadingPipe(1, addresses[1]); // 00001
  radio.setPALevel(RF24_PA_MIN);
}
void loop() {
  delay(5);
  radio.startListening();
  if ( radio.available()) {
    while (radio.available()) {
      int angleV = 0;
      radio.read(&angleV, sizeof(angleV));
      myServo.write(angleV);
    }
    delay(5);
    radio.stopListening();
    buttonState = digitalRead(button);
    radio.write(&buttonState, sizeof(buttonState));
  }
}
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AshwiniGunjal:
I want use this for street light control. I will send signal to light also I will send light working condition to server.so I am using
nrf24l01 module.I try for one way communication .this work successfully. But I can't communicate bidirectionally .please help me.

Have you carefully studied the link in Reply #1. Your program in Reply #2 suggests that you did not.

This Simple nRF24L01+ Tutorial may help - but it does not use the Mesh feature.

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5

This thread is not about mesh networking, but does show how to do 2 way communication.

Rats, beat me to it, Robin2. Great minds?

6

LoRa seems to be the current best-practise. I think Nordic do make LoRa modules. Search around - you will be surprised at the technology that already exists for this task.

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groundfungus:
This thread is not about mesh networking, but does show how to do 2 way communication.

Rats, beat me to it, Robin2. Great minds?

yes This thread is about Bidirectional communication.Before going toward mesh I tried for Bidirectional communication.

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AshwiniGunjal:
Before going toward mesh I tried for Bidirectional communication.

You are making it very difficult to help you. You are not sharing information.

  • What happened when you tried bi-directional communication?
  • Was that working?
  • In what way does it not meet your requirement so that you need to extend to the Mesh system?

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