SWRU368C May 2018 – January 2021 CC3100 , CC3100MOD , CC3200 , CC3200MOD
SmartConfig technology is a TI proprietary provisioning method designed for headless devices introduced in 2012. It uses a mobile application to broadcast the network credentials from a smartphone, tablet, or to an unprovisioned TI Wi-Fi device. When SmartConfig is triggered in the un-provisioned device, it enters a special scan mode, waiting to pick up the network information that is being broadcasted by the phone app. The phone needs to be connected to a Wi-Fi network to be able to transmit the SmartConfig signal over the air. Typically this is the same home network onto which the new device is going to be provisioned.
For more details on the SmartConfig smartphone application, see the simplelink wiki http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/CC32xx_Provisioning_Smart_Config.