Patent ID: 11924757
Assignee: ZAINAR, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A sensor node for a wireless asymmetric network architecture, comprising:
at least one sensor;
a memory for storing instructions;
processing logic coupled to the memory and the at least one sensor, the processing logic to execute instructions for processing data received from the at least one sensor and for processing communications for the sensor node; and
radio frequency (RF) circuitry coupled to the processing logic, the RF circuitry includes
transmitter and receiver functionality to transmit communications to a hub and to receive communications from the hub in the wireless asymmetric network architecture, wherein the processing logic is configured to execute instructions to receive a first communication from the hub or to transmit a second communication to the hub and to determine a scheduled timing of operating the sensor node at a communicative state during a transmit window for transmitting communications of the sensor node, to determine a timing separation of transmit and receive windows of the sensor node at a low-energy non-communicative state after the transmit window and prior to the receive window of the sensor node, and to determine at the communicative state the separate receive window for the sensor node for receiving communications based on a timing of receiving the first communication from the hub or transmitting the second communication to the hub to reduce power consumption of the sensor node, wherein the hub is powered by a mains electrical source and the sensor node is powered by a battery source to form the wireless asymmetric network architecture.