Sharing duty cycle between devices
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsWael Guibene, Mark Kelly
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for offloading data from a device with a duty cycle shortage to a device with an excess of duty cycle are provided. In an example method, a packet is sent to a cloud device. A duty cycle usage remaining for transmission of data to the cloud device is calculated. If the remaining duty cycle is below a preset limit, data is offloaded to a sending device.
Claims25
An apparatus, comprising an internet-of-things (IoT) device, comprising:
- a cloud radio transceiver to send data to a cloud connection over a first frequency;
- a mesh transceiver to communicate with a mesh network over a second frequency;
- a duty cycle calculator to determine if a duty cycle for transmissions from the cloud radio transceiver is nearing a limit;
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- a data offloader to send data from the IoT device to a sending device in the mesh network capable of receiving the data and sending it on to the cloud connection.
A method for offloading data from an Internet of things (IoT) device, comprising:
- sending a packet to a cloud device;
- computing a duty cycle usage remaining for transmission of data to the cloud device;
- and, if the remaining duty cycle is below a preset lower limit,
- offloading data to a sending device.
A non-transitory, machine readable medium, comprising instructions, which when executed, direct a processor in an Internet of things (IoT) device to:
- communicate over a low power wide area (LPWA) network;
- determine a remaining duty cycle for LPWA communications;
- determine the remaining duty cycle for units in a mesh network;
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- send packets over the mesh network to a second device having an excess of duty cycle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.