Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wireless sensor network
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Application No.: US16292533Application Date: 2019-03-05
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Publication No.: US10687340B2Publication Date: 2020-06-16
- Inventor: Jackson William Wegelin , Chip Curtis
- Applicant: GOJO Industries, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US OH Akron
- Assignee: GOJO Industries, Inc.
- Current Assignee: GOJO Industries, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US OH Akron
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- Main IPC: H04W72/08
- IPC: H04W72/08 ; H04W4/70 ; H04W56/00 ; H04W72/04 ; H04B17/318 ; H04W52/02 ; H04W84/20 ; H04W84/18 ; H04W88/16

Abstract:
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for automatically forming a wireless sensor network, implementing power management for the wireless sensor network, and/or self-healing within the wireless sensor network. For example, hub devices, configured to forward messages through the wireless sensor network to a gateway device having access to a network, may automatically join and configure into the wireless sensor network by locating and connecting to master devices using signal frequencies representing numbers of hops to the gateway device. A hub device may be configured to transition between a low power sleep state for power conservation and an awakened normal operational state for transmitting timing signals according to a duty cycle, and thus the hub device may be capable of operating from a battery. If a hub device determines that a master device has become inoperable, the hub device may automatically search for a new master device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190200364A1 WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK Public/Granted day:2019-06-27
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