IoT Toolbox vs nRF Mesh

IoT Toolbox allows the end-user to improve their Out of the Box Experience, providing a user-friendly way to test the BLE demo applications developed for the NXP Connectivity chipsets. IoT Toolbox is an all-in-one application capable of demonstrating NXP’s Bluetooth® LE capabilities through the implementation of Bluetooth® LE and custom proprietary profiles, allowing the interaction with different smartphones. The application interacts with the following Bluetooth® LE profiles: -Blood Pressure -Cycling Speed and Cadence -Glucose -Health Thermometer -Heart Rate -Proximity -Running Speed and Cadence The custom proprietary profiles included are: -NXP Beacon -Over the Air Programming (OTAP) -Thread Shell -Zigbee Shell -NFC Reader -Wireless Console/UART Future development will add more exciting capabilities.

nRF Mesh allows you to easily deploy nodes to any Bluetooth Mesh compatible Nodes, giving you flexibility to deploy many different Mesh network Setups. Features: • Identifying: Identify a node before provisioning it. • Provisioning: Deployment of a new Node is as simple as a press of a button. All Out-Of-Band (OOB) methods are supported. • Remote Provisioning: Allows provisioning Nodes that are too faw to reach them directly. • Configuration: Create Network and Application keys or use the randomly generated ones, subscribe to groups and setup your nodes for publishing. • Node Control: Control nodes with Generic OnOff Server, Generic Level Server, Generic OnPowerUp Server, Scene Server and many other models. • Device Firmware Update: Quickly send a new firmware to the Distributor and observe it slowly distributing it to all the nodes. Additionally, you may also run the following configuration commands on your network: • Fully control node publication data. All publication parameters are configurable. • Add/Remove one or more subscription addresses on a model. • Create own AppKeys, or generate them using the builtin crypto-safe generator. • Bind/unbind an Application Key to a specific model for full granular control of your networks' security. • Explore the nodes' capabilities to view all elements, models, provisioning time and date, Manufacturer and available vendor data. • Set the Default TTL on a per-node basis. • Manage global AppKey list on a node. • And much more... Hardware support: - This version of the app is capable of communicating with any BLE devices that speak Bluetooth Mesh! - We recommend nRF5 devices with our nRF SDK for Mesh or nRF Connect SDK.