System and method to facilitate power management in a long range radio network environment

One or more non-transitory tangible media encoding logic that includes instructions for execution that when executed by a processor, is operable to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a power saving mode (PSM) request by a long range radio, wherein the PSM request comprises an identification of at least one first receive window to disable and at least one second receive window to enable for the long range radio for a plurality of uplink transmissions and an identification of a duration for which the at least one first receive window is to be disabled and the at least one second receive window is to be enabled for the plurality of uplink transmissions;
• transmitting the plurality of uplink transmissions by the long range radio, wherein the at least one first receive window is disabled and the at least one second receive window is enabled following each uplink transmission of the plurality of uplink transmissions by the long range radio for the duration identified in the PSM request;
• and
• receiving data when the at least one second receive window is enabled.

A long range radio comprising:

• a memory element for storing data;
• and
• a processor to execute instructions associated with the data that, when executed, the long range radio is configured to:
• receive a power saving mode (PSM) request, wherein the PSM request comprises an identification of at least one first receive window to disable and at least one second receive window to enable for the long range radio for a plurality of uplink transmissions and an identification of a duration for which the at least one first receive window is to be disabled and the at least one second receive window is to be enabled for the plurality of uplink transmissions;
• transmit the plurality of uplink transmissions by the long range radio, wherein the at least one first receive window is disabled and the at least one second receive window is enabled following each uplink transmission of the plurality of uplink transmissions by the long range radio for the duration identified in the PSM request;
• and
• receive data when the at least one second receive window is enabled.