AIMesh 2.5
Deterministic industrial wireless, built on IETF 6TiSCH
AIMesh 2.5 is the industrial wireless sensor network protocol developed by AISENZ on the IETF 6TiSCH standard, combining IEEE 802.15.4e TSCH time-slotted channel hopping, native IPv6 with RPL routing and a FLRC/FEC physical layer.
Why it is different
Scheduling, not probability
Industrial wireless has long faced a trilemma: high reliability, low power and large node counts rarely coexist. Contention-based protocols degrade exponentially as density rises. AIMesh 2.5 takes the opposite approach — TSCH divides time into slots and the spectrum into as many as 50 hopping channels, and every transmission is scheduled into a specific slot-and-channel cell. Determinism comes from the schedule rather than from luck, which is what makes these figures hold at scale.
Measured on the standard test configuration: 100 nodes, 3-hop topology, one packet per 30 seconds, multi-storey deployment.
Hardware
The AIMesh 2.5 device family
Four devices on one protocol stack and one management application — from a module embedded in an instrument to an edge gateway running local AI inference.
AP01 Border Router Gateway
The 6TiSCH root node bridging AIMesh to a wired IPv6 network. 3× Cortex-A7, +19 dBm transmit and −111 dBm sensitivity, carrying several hundred mote nodes per unit.
M01 Wireless Module
The smallest access unit in an AIMesh network. ARM Cortex-M4 with a 2.4 GHz radio in a 16 × 26 mm SMT package, running routing or leaf mode.
D01 DTU Module
Brings existing Modbus RTU instruments onto AIMesh over RS485 with no modification, and doubles as a standalone relay routing node.
E680 Edge Gateway
4× Cortex-A72 + 4× Cortex-A53 with a 6 TOPS NPU. Runs AIMesh Manager, protocol conversion and edge AI inference — including local LLM inference — on one unit.
Technical reading
How the protocol works
Disambiguation
Four different things are called AIMesh
AIMesh™ on this site is the industrial wireless sensor network protocol developed by Shenzhen AISenz Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., built on IETF 6TiSCH and IEEE 802.15.4e TSCH time-slotted channel hopping. It connects temperature, pressure, flow, vibration and leak sensors across oil and gas, power, data centre and process industry sites, with leaf nodes running five to ten years on a single cell.
Three unrelated things share the name. XSKY's AIMesh — spelled identically — is an AI data infrastructure suite (MeshFS, MeshSpace, MeshFusion) that feeds data to AI training and inference clusters; storage and data platform, no wireless component. ASUS AiMesh is a consumer Wi-Fi feature that lets several ASUS routers form one roaming network over IEEE 802.11, for homes and small offices. Agentic AI Mesh is an enterprise AI agent orchestration pattern proposed by McKinsey — an architectural idea, not any company's product.
The one genuine technical overlap anywhere in the set is that AISENZ AIMesh™ and ASUS AiMesh can both operate in the 2.4 GHz ISM band, which is a stretch of public spectrum rather than a technical relationship. In a data centre, Wi-Fi is in fact one of the interferers an industrial mesh hops around. Note also that AIMesh is not a misspelling of AiMesh: the capitalisation is itself the distinction — AISENZ and XSKY both write AIMesh, ASUS writes AiMesh, McKinsey writes Agentic AI Mesh.
Scope
About this English section
These pages cover AIMesh 2.5 and its hardware. The rest of the AISENZ site — industry solutions, customer case studies, the LoRaWAN and LoRaMESH product lines, smart RTUs and edge controllers, SCADA and PHM software — is currently published in Chinese only, and links leaving this section lead to Chinese pages.
For selection advice, evaluation samples or a technical discussion in English, contact the AISENZ engineering team at sales@aisenz.com.