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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
May. 03, 2017
Landis+gyr Innovations, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (US);
James Randall Turner, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Landis+Gyr Innovations, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing scheduled communication between a primary network, such as a time synchronized channel hopping ('TSCH') network, and a secondary network, such as a carrier sense multiple access ('CSMA') network. During a first selected slot-offset in a TSCH hopping pattern, a gateway node communicates with a primary network node. During a second selected slot-offset in the TSCH hopping pattern, the gateway node communicates with a secondary network node. A communication schedule identifies the source and destination nodes and channel frequency for each slot-offset. The communication schedule is set such that the CSMA wake-up period for the secondary network is synchronized with the second slot-offset in the TSCH hopping pattern.