Power Management

In many applications devices are battery powered, and battery replacement or recharging in relatively short intervals is impractical. Therefore, the power consumption is of significant concern. Though in certain applications some of these devices could be mains powered, the BitCloud Stack has been developed to favor battery-powered devices, which will spend most of their operational life in a sleep state and hence require a duty-cycling to reduce power consumption.

The folowing commands are available for power management:

• Sleep Request command puts the device to sleep mode.
  See use case: Lowpower sample application.
  Upon receipt of this command, device shall return the confirmation.
• Sleep Indication function indicates to an application that the stack is ready to sleep. In responce to this function stack shall call Sleep Responce function and go to sleep mode.
• Wake Up Request command forces the stack to wake up from the sleep mode.
  See use case: Lowpower sample application.
  Upon receipt of this command, confirmation shall be returned.
• Wake Up Indication function indicates to an application that the stack is ready to wake up.

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