POLYMORPHISM AND PRIORITY INVERSION TO HANDLE DIFFERENT TYPES OF LIFE STYLE AND LIFE SAFETY TRAFFIC IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK FOR A CONNECTED HOME

摘要

A system including a control panel having a first and second wireless transceivers, a beacon processor of the control panel that transmits a beacon through the first transceiver, the beacon defines a repeating superframe having a first time period and a second time period, a plurality of wireless devices that exchange messages with the control panel within a respective TDMA slot of the superframe and an access processor within the control panel that dynamically adjusts a relative size of the first and second time periods to reduce or exclude WiFi access by portable user devices based upon a status of the plurality of wireless devices wherein use of the second time period is polymorphic under IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.15.4 protocols and wherein a relative priority of the first and second time periods is inverted during transmissions between the control panel and other devices of the control panel.