Synapse RF Mesh Design Additional Info.
#1. We bought the Synapse EK2100 development kit ($99.00 USB) which includes the Portal development software and one SN171 RF development protoboard with RF and one USB SNAP Stick which is a USB RF bridge to the PC. In all, this kit contained two RF Mesh Modules. All you need is ~ +3 VDC to power the units if your RF Mesh use is external to the PC.
#2. Some RF Mesh Engines are 3 miles "LOS" - "Line of Sight" This range could be extended by just having many distributed RF mesh engines powered up in the idle state.
#3. We included a battery monitor circuit in our RF Mesh Motes to indicate battery life.
See Synapse forum for more info.
#4. There is no need for RF Mesh central coordinators in the Synapse RF mesh network.
#5. The nodes are immediately able to communicate with each other.
#6. No PC software required - there is no need for software installed on a PC to coordinate the
nodes, they can think for themselves.
#7. Any node can talk to any other node - There is no central coordinator node with SNAP.
#8. There is a max. buffer packet limitation which you cannot exceed. You cannot send video due to this RF limitation.
