A wireless fire alarm notification system uses wireless repeater devices to annunciate an alarm to slave devices from the control panel. A notification device provides a local synchronization signal via wire to a secondary notification device. A method enables the activation or deactivation of child device without the child device having to query their parent repeater. A circuit to test the integrity of an active battery charger, a battery, and an isolation circuit is also shown. A method for qualifying that an RF signal meets a specified minimum acceptable level is described. A method for wirelessly sending events to avoid RF link overload is provided. A programming checksum method confirms that an annunciator has latest programming information. A method to automatically process messages from new devices without having to hardcode repeaters to support these new devices is also described.

A data sequence to be transmitted is constituted by a data body and preceding data. The amount of preceding data is smaller than that of data body. If it is determined as a result of executing carrier sensing that a frequency band of radio waves to be transmitted is not being used by another contending communication system, the preceding data is transmitted after the lapse of a predetermined time. If it is determined as a result of executing carrier sensing after completion of transmitting of the preceding data that the frequency band is not being used by another contending communication system, the data body is transmitted after the lapse of a predetermined time. If it is determined that the frequency band is being used, the contention for the frequency band is avoided.

Methods for managing non-chatty IoT devices in a network are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving classification information identifying that an internet IoT device is connected to a port of a switch and determining that the IoT device has been inactive for a predetermined threshold period of time based on a logoff timer configured for the port. The IoT device is woken up from a power-save mode based on a guaranteed wakeup timer of the IoT device or a Wake-on-LAN packet sent to the IoT device by the switch. The logoff timer is then resent, causing the IoT device to remain in an authenticated state. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.

Where a communications device maintains multiple wireless connections to other devices and networks which use slotted communications protocols, the slots used by those protocols are arranged so as to minimise the power consumed by the device. Where multiple radios are used, power is minimised by avoiding using radios at the same time when those radios are likely to interfere with each other. Slots used by communication protocols can also be selected to maximise the time that the communications device can spend in lower power mode.

The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for reducing power consumption of a receiver in a mobile communication network comprising a sender transmitting packet data on a downlink channel to one or more receivers over a radio interface. Inactive time instants and listening time instants are defined according to provided rules. The receiver is arranged to listen for information from the sender during the listening time instants and to sleep during the inactive time instants. Thus, less power will be consumed during the inactive time instants.

A channel access indication method and device. The method includes: receiving, by a first communications device, a channel synchronization request sent by a second communications device, where the channel synchronization request is used to request the first communications device to send a synchronization frame to the second communications device, and a wake-up receiver is configured for the second communications device; and according to the channel synchronization request and a time at which the second communications device is woken up and that is learned by the first communications device based on preset signaling, sending, by the first communications device when a channel is idle, the synchronization frame to the woken-up second communications device, where the synchronization frame is used to instruct the woken-up second communications device to access the channel after receiving the synchronization frame.

The present disclosure describes techniques and systems to mitigate a power condition local to a user device by deactivating high-bandwidth transmission of data to the user device. While receiving multiple streams of data as part of high-bandwidth wireless communications, the user device determines a local power condition and sends a deactivation message that causes a base station to deactivate transmission of at least one of the multiple streams of data.

A power saving receiver has a controller which is operative to remove power from the receiver when a threshold is exceeded during reception of a packet. The threshold level is formed by comparison of any of: signal energy of unoccupied subcarriers less the signal energy in occupied subcarriers; signal energy in a first range of occupied subcarriers compared to signal energy in a different range of occupied subcarriers; error vector magnitude from a first set of subcarriers to a second set of subcarriers in a different spectral region of the channel; cyclic prefix cross-correlation, or common phase error increase.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit (or a base station may receive) a beam failure recovery (BFR) request based at least in part on detecting a beam failure while the user equipment is in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode; and the user equipment may receive (or the base station may transmit) a response to the BFR request, wherein the response uses a particular structure based at least in part on the beam failure occurring during the DRX mode. Numerous other aspects are provided.

The present application provides a method and an apparatus for information reception, a receiving device, a storage medium and a program product. The method includes: obtaining a receiving-length; receiving a beacon frame sent by a sending device based on the receiving-length to obtain target information, where the receiving-length is less than the total length of the beacon frame; performing packet analysis on the target information to obtain a first analysis result; and controlling, in case of determining that the first analysis result indicates that no downlink data from a sending device is to be sent to the receiving device, the receiving device to enter a sleep state. The method and apparatus for receiving information, device, storage medium and program product provided by the present application are used to reduce power consumption in receiving the beacon frame.