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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2020
Industrial Scientific Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
L. Robert Crouthamel, Mars, PA (US);
Raghu Arunachalam, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Benjamin Haas, Monaca, PA (US);
Henry Xin, McDonald, PA (US);
Lisa McCracken, Oakdale, PA (US);
Scott Jubeck, Sewickley, PA (US);
Industrial Scientific Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A wireless mesh network including a leader node and a plurality of follower nodes is provided. The leader node transmits a sync message to the plurality of follower nodes indicating a beginning of a network interval. The leader node and the plurality of follower nodes transmit information during a transmission period of the network interval and do not transmit information during a sleep period of the network interval. The leader node and the plurality of follower nodes use less power in the sleep period than in the transmission period; and the plurality of follower nodes each include a timer adapted to time the transmission period and the sleep period for each of a plurality of future network intervals in an absence of continued receipt of the sync message from the leader node during the plurality of future network intervals.