San Juan
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- Protocol Stack San Juan Software
PopNet™ is a robust, wireless, mesh networking protocol and operating environment designed to work with low cost, IEEE 802.15.4 radios and microcontrollers for low-power sensor and control applications. PopNet provides an easy to use environment for writing custom wireless applications.
Products
- products
- Demo software kit with binaries (only)for all Freescale development boards Free Download
- PopNet Software Development Kit (SDK) download for $299
- PopNet Develop Quick (PDQ Kit) with software and 3 working nodes price $399
- SDK is used with:
- Freescale BeeKit Wireless Connectivity Toolkit Free Download
PopNet Demo Kit Installation Key Code
If you have the demo kit and just need to unlock it use the assigned key code below. If you need the user name and password for the demo:
- ftp://sanjuansw.com
- user: PopNet2DemoKit
- pwd: openbay
Here is your key you will need for installing the demo:
- 339-209-76
Low Power Sleeping Mesh
PopNet does not currently support low power router (repeater) nodes in a mesh configuration out-of-the-box. We have been thinking about implementing this feature as is becoming one of the common customer requests. However, the way PopNet is architected, it is possible to have a network where all nodes are low power. In PopNet, any node may sleep (include those participating in routing), but they don’t route while they are asleep, as the radio cannot receive anything. In order to use the mesh, the those nodes participating in routing must be awake. It is possible, if you have accurate synchronized timing in the network, to do what you are asking for below: have the nodes sleep for a period of time, then all wake up at the same time, and route traffic, then go back to sleep. PopNet informs the application when it’s done communicating so the node knows it can go back to sleep. It would take some effort to achieve the right balance of sleep to wake time, in order to ensure each packet makes it to its final destination before routers start sleeping again. This would require: 1. A time protocol for synchronizing nodes 2. Monitoring the mesh activity to stay awake until the traffic is died down (all packets have been routed through any particular node). We do offer custom engineering services, if this is something you’d like San Juan Software to implement for Light Fast Electronics, or we can give your engineers some ideas of how to start if you wish to implement it yourselves on PopNet.
