Achieving lowest cost, scalable, and dynamic wireless mesh network installations
Summary
The implementation of sensor networks is growing rapidly in a number of diverse fields including environmental monitoring, industrial IoT installations, and home and building automation (HBA). Smart sensor networks can monitor room occupation and usage, controlling heating, lighting, and air quality automatically, even operating doors and windows. This is, of course, especially true for remote environmental monitors, but even in buildings, mains power may not be available, dependence on cables reduces the flexibility of a network and increases its cost, especially if hoists or ‘cherry-pickers’ become necessary. To better understand the advantages of NeoMesh, it is useful to compare it with legacy mesh network technologies that have limitations in terms of scalability and power efficiency. However, because a router must continuously listen for messages from end devices which may transmit asynchronously, it will have a much higher power drain, and therefore cannot normally operate on batteries.