BEACON FOR A STAR NETWORK, SENSOR NODES IN A STAR NETWORK, METHOD FOR INITIALIZING A GATEWAY IN A STAR NETWORK AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A STAR NETWORK.

摘要

The invention relates to a beacon for a star network comprising a gateway (A; B; C) and at least one sensor node (P; S; T), wherein the beacon has fields which contain information on the length of a base time-slot and information on the number of used base time-slots per management time-slot, wherein the management time-slots are used at least in order to transmit configurations for the star network. The invention further relates to a sensor node (P; S; T) in a star network, said sensor node (P; S; T) having a data structure for saving a star network configuration and said data structure having a configuration gateway ID and a configuration sequence number as attributes.