Hello good morning, my name is Jose Antonio and I work in a company dedicated to mobile robotics, we have been acquiring several of your products, specifically the Groovea 52ac antennas.
We want to try to make a mesh network (Mesh) so that a set of antennas, distributed throughout the factory, generate said network by sending all the signal to another antenna that will act as an access point and bridge to the original network.
As a configuration we are looking for an antenna connected to the main network to act as an AP, this generates a Virtual network to which the other antennas connect to it and these are the ones that generate the mesh network.
I would like to know if it is possible, first of all, to generate a Mesh network or something similar that meets our need to generate said network, that is, a local Wi-Fi network with a connection throughout the factor.
Greetings and thank you.
While possible, I wouldn’t advise going that route…
If full dynamic Mesh is gonna be used, latencies and collisions will render it almost unusable.
Static mesh could be used instead (if possible) for a more predictable performance; when I say if possible I mean this will depend on stations being static… if they’re moving (i.e. forklifts etc) using static mesh would be moot…
You mention mobile robots, do they free-roam, or have specific “tracks” or areas?
The most reliable approach imo would be deploying fixed APs strategically through the factory (CAPsMAN can be used to centrally manage them) to deploy a common SSID, then have the mobile robots connect using its Groove as station. They will automatically connect to the best received APs.
This deployment could be done using wire/fiber (most reliable) or wireless ptp or ptpm to interconnect them, using the bands so that e.g. backbones use 60GHz or 5GHz, and stations 2.4GHz.
How big is the factory?