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6.5 Powering beacons
Modes of operations:
1. Stationary beacons are powered from a clean source of +5V USB
2. Mobile beacon is powered from a clean source of +5V USB from a robot
3. Operations based on internal LiPol 3.7V 1000 mAh cell
- Typical power consumption in deep sleep mode is 50uA that gives ~2y shelf time with a
regular 1000mAh battery. Beacon can be woken up from deep sleep only by pressing HW
reset button
- In regular sleep mode, the beacons wake up automatically every 2 seconds for ~20ms to
monitor external calls from modem/router. That brings some additional consumption, but still
leaves several months in sleep mode
- Active mode work time directly depends on the location update rate. For example:
- With the standard 1000mAh battery and 16Hz update rate, the expected work time will
be 97h => 8 days (assuming 12h working day)
- With the extended 4300mAh battery and 1Hz location update rate the expected work
time will be ~5800h or 484 days (assuming 12h working day)