• Optimized radio protocols minimize overhead.
• Sophisticated algorithms result in meticulous synchronization.
• Energy efficient transmitting and receiving components conserve battery life.
• Link budget intelligently adapts to your needs using only the energy necessary.
• Low leakage components eliminate waste.
• Precision power management prioritizes and swiftly detects and reacts to changing conditions.

• Quantity of real information that must be exchanged (there are often ways of minimizing the data transferred without compromising the information conveyed).
• Typical distance between base and endpoints and propagation conditions (pay attention to the relative heights of the respective antennas).
• The maximum latency acceptable (delay between when a message sequence initiated at one end of the link can be acted upon at the other end).
• Operating temperature (extreme temperatures degrade battery life depending on chemistry).

• Idle: This is the energy that does not directly contribute to receiving or transmitting messages. Factors include:
  • Circuit Leakage (energy consumed simply because there is an applied voltage).
  • Battery Self Leakage (batteries lose energy just sitting on the shelf).
  • Link Maintenance (low latency requires always ON communication).
• Transmit: This is the energy consumed in transmitting the information. Factors include:
  • The amount of data being shared (two-way communication allows you to share what you need and need what you share).
  • Transmit power and efficiency (get the most power for the least energy).
  • Packet overhead (eliminate excess bytes).
  • RF output power (lower RF power means a dramatically longer battery life).
  • Data rate (Higher bit rates results in dramatically less energy consumed).

  The link automatically optimizes the data rate and transmitted power to your networks’ needs on an individual endpoint basis. The less data that you need to communicate the less energy will be consumed.

• Receive: Energy consumed in receiving information. Factors include:
  • Receive efficiency (use the least energy possible in decoding the packet).
  • Packet overhead (eliminate excess bytes).
  • Synchronization precision (only use energy when you need to).
  • Data rate (Higher bit rates results in dramatically less energy consumed).
  • The amount of data being shared (two-way communication allows you to share what you need and need what you share).
  • The number of endpoints on the network.

There are several reasons to incorporate network extenders. For example:

• You can expand your physical network coverage or extend your reach. Network extender endpoints join with conventional bases to form starlets. Starlets link to other starlets allowing your network to grow commensurate with your needs. With a reach of several kilometers per link, your network can get you from the base of one mountain range to the far side of another. By daisy-chaining multiple judiciously positioned network extenders ranges of 100 km or possible.
• You can enable a large number of endpoints to be accessed from a single host. Through a star and starlet approach, the number of endpoints within it can be multiplied.
• You can build in redundancy. If one base goes down, endpoints can readily attach themselves to another one in range and notify the host of their relocation.

Autonomous polls, hierarchical network activations, and super packets help make it easy and efficient to implement for modest data throughput applications.

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