Configuring a wireless mesh network for locationing

A relay node of a mesh network, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor, communicatively coupled to the memory, configured to:
• receive, via the mesh network, a locationing communication associated with a waypoint beacon;
• determine, using a node mapping, a distance between a waypoint location associated with the waypoint beacon and a relay node location of the relay node, wherein:
• the distance corresponds to a quantity of hops of the mesh network between the relay node and an entry node of the mesh network that provided the locationing communication, and
• the waypoint location corresponds to an entry node location of the entry node within the mesh network;
• identify, from the locationing communication, a waypoint identifier of the waypoint beacon;
• identify, based on the waypoint identifier and the node mapping, the entry node to determine the entry node location within a topology of the mesh network;
• identify, from the node mapping, the relay node location within the topology of the mesh network;
• determine, from topology information of the mesh network in the node mapping, the topology of the mesh network;
• and
• determine, based on the topology of the mesh network, the quantity of hops between the entry node location and the relay node location to determine the distance;
• and
• forward, when the distance satisfies a threshold distance, the locationing communication through the mesh network to enable locationing in association with the waypoint location, or
• drop, when the distance does not satisfy the threshold distance, the locationing communication, wherein the threshold distance corresponds to a threshold quantity of hops.