Remote Provisioning#

The PB-Remote bearer allows a Provisioner that is outside immediate radio range of an unprovisioned device to communicate with a node supporting the Remote Provisioning Server model that is within immediate radio range of the unprovisioned device, and to use that node as a re-transmitter to communicate with the unprovisioned device using PB-ADV or PB-GATT. This allows a Provisioner to provision unprovisioned devices using nodes of the mesh network.

In legacy Bluetooth mesh provisioning using PB-ADV, the Provisioner node also has the PB-ADV Provisioning Client. It can directly provision an unprovisioned device in the radio range. Bluetooth mesh provisioning using PB-GATT is similar, in that the Provisioner node also has the PB-GATT Provisioning Client (or Mesh Provisioning Service GATT Client).