The BlueRange gateway connects our smart lights and sensors via Bluetooth / BlueRange mesh with the Internet or with the cloud. It is a central component of the mesh network and also a mesh participant itself. Therefore, it must be within communication range of at least one mesh node (luminaire / sensor). In the gateway, the data from the individual mesh participants is collected centrally and sent to the MQTT broker. The gateway is connected to a network either via an Ethernet cable or via WLAN.