Bluetooth SIG Mesh standard solutions

Most lighting vendors commit to a single approach: a proprietary system, or the open standard. MESHLE provides for both.

MESHLE Bluetooth Mesh, the proprietary protocol, carries the complete feature set built over more than a decade. The Bluetooth SIG Mesh standard provides cross-vendor interoperability for the fundamentals of commercial lighting. For a specification that mandates the open standard, MESHLE can deliver a compliant solution; for one that needs the full feature set, the proprietary protocol applies. In either case, the work runs through a single, accountable partner.

The standard covers the fundamentals. It does not yet reach the full scope of MESHLE Bluetooth Mesh: shutter and blind control, MESHLE Swarm presence-following lighting, synchronized multi-channel colour and tunable-white effects, guest management, and horticultural control remain exclusive to the proprietary protocol.

Custom models can extend the standard to close an individual gap — but those extensions are no longer interoperable, which is the reason most projects adopt the standard in the first place. Where these capabilities are required, MESHLE Bluetooth Mesh is the appropriate choice; where open interoperability is the priority, the standard is.

MESHLE advocates for open standards and will continue the work of merging its feature-rich development with the Bluetooth SIG Mesh standard.