Patent ID: 9582452
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A device comprising: a bus interface to couple to a shared bus of a sensor network; a sensor interface to couple to a sensor of the sensor network; a gated pulse width modulation circuit coupled to the bus interface and to the sensor interface, the gated pulse width modulation circuit configured to transmit, during a time slot, an analog pulse width modulated representation of a signal received from the sensor; a second circuit coupled to the bus interface and to the sensor interface, the second circuit configured to receive a second signal via the shared bus and to provide a representation of the second signal to the sensor, wherein the representation of the second signal includes sensor data from a second sensor; and a time slot assignment device coupled to the bus interface and configured to assign the time slot to the sensor in response to no transmission from another device being detected on the shared bus in the time slot during a monitoring time period, wherein the time slot assignment device identifies a first particular time slot to monitor based on a device identifier associated with the sensor.