User's Guide

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Table of Contents
1 Document revisions ..................................................................................................... 5
2 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 5
3 NeoMesh Wireless Ad-Hoc MESH-networking ............................................................ 6
3.1 Overview ....................................................................................................................... 6
3.2 NeoMesh – 2
nd
generation Wireless Mesh Network ............................................... 6
3.2.1 Legacy mesh network characteristics ................................................................ 6
3.2.2 NeoMesh network characteristics ...................................................................... 8
3.3 NeoMesh Core functionality....................................................................................... 8
3.3.1 Time Synchronized Operation ........................................................................... 8
3.3.2 Network Initialization ........................................................................................... 9
3.3.2.1 Beacon Transmissions ................................................................................. 9
3.3.2.2 Scheduled Data Transmissions................................................................. 10
3.3.3 Network maintenance ....................................................................................... 12
3.3.3.1 Lost neighbour ........................................................................................... 12
3.3.3.2 The moving node ....................................................................................... 12
3.3.4 Sending Payload Data ....................................................................................... 12
3.3.4.1 Speed Routing ............................................................................................ 13
3.3.4.2 Acknowledged Transmissions .................................................................. 13
3.3.4.3 Non-Acknowledged Transmissions ......................................................... 14
3.3.4.3.1 Sending to non-Sink Nodes .................................................................. 14
3.3.4.4 Broadcast Transmissions ........................................................................... 15
3.3.4.5 Payload transmission method .................................................................. 15
3.3.4.6 Latency ......................................................................................................... 17
3.3.4.7 Payload size & throughput ........................................................................ 17
3.3.5 Security ................................................................................................................ 18
3.3.6 Reliability ............................................................................................................. 19
3.3.6.1 Node-to-node Ack/Nack ........................................................................... 19
3.3.6.2 FHSS – Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum ....................................... 20
3.3.7 Wireless Encrypted Setup ................................................................................. 20
3.3.7.1 Remote WES Client activation .................................................................. 21
3.3.8 Power Consumption .......................................................................................... 21
3.3.9 Hibernation ......................................................................................................... 21
3.3.9.1 Wake-Up Burst types ................................................................................. 22
3.3.9.2 Local Wake-Up ............................................................................................ 23
3.3.9.3 Global Wake-Up ......................................................................................... 23
3.3.10 Alternate Configuration Mode ......................................................................... 23
3.4 Configurable Parameters .......................................................................................... 25
3.4.1 Node Access and Application settings ........................................................... 25
3.4.1.1 Password Level 1..3 .................................................................................... 25
3.4.1.2 Trace Output ............................................................................................... 25