INTERLEAVED COMMUNICATION WITH RESOURCE PROVIDERS AND A HOME AREA NETWORK

摘要

Systems and methods are disclosed for interleaving communications with a home area network (HAN) and a data network. A gateway device interleaves communications within timeslots of a time slotted channel hopping protocol. A gateway device can be configured to determine, during a first portion of a timeslot, whether the gateway device received a portion of a message from a data network. If the gateway device receives no messages from the data network during the first portion of the timeslot, the gateway device switches to listen for communication from the HAN during a second portion of the timeslot. If the gateway device receives a portion of the message from the HAN, the gateway device continues to receive receives the remainder of the message until one or more trigger conditions that cause the gateway device to listen for communication from the data network.

主权项

1. A gateway device comprising:
a single transceiver device configured to communicate with a primary network and with a home area network; a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver device; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor, wherein the processor is configured for executing instructions embodied in the non-transitory computer-readable medium to perform operations comprising:
determining, during a first portion of a timeslot of a time slotted channel hopping protocol, whether the gateway device received a portion of a first data network message that requires processing by the gateway device from a node on the primary network;in response to determining that the gateway device did not receive the portion of the first data network message that requires processing by the gateway device, determining, during a second portion of the timeslot, whether the gateway device received a portion of a first home area network message that requires processing by the gateway device from the home area network communicating using a secondary network protocol;in response to determining that the gateway device received the portion of the first home area network message that requires processing by the gateway device, continuing to receive the first home area network message; anddetermining, in response to one or more trigger conditions causing the gateway device to listen for communication from the primary network, whether the gateway device received a second data network message from the node or an additional node on the primary network.