EXTENDED BATTERY LIFETIME FOR NB-IOT DEVICES VIA COVERAGE CLASS SPECIFIC PAGING

    公开(公告)号:EP3687235A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-29

    申请号:EP19179725.7

    申请日:2019-06-12

    发明人: KURTH, Mathias

    IPC分类号: H04W68/08

    摘要: The invention discloses a method for optimizing power consumption for Narrowband Internet of Things devices, UEs, in idle mode using a coverage class specific paging configuration. The object of the invention to find a method that reduces power consumption of NB-IoT devices in good signal coverage within idle mode will be solved by a method for optimizing power consumption for Narrowband Internet of Things devices, UEs, in idle mode using a coverage class specific paging configuration, wherein carriers for paging are partitioned by coverage class, whereas the coverage class specific paging configuration, broadcasted by a system information exchanged between the base station and the UE, is extended by an additional NRSRP rsrp-ThresholdPcch threshold, whereas the UE selects one carrier for paging with a Narrowband Reference signal received power (NRSRP) smaller than the rsrp-ThresholdPcch threshold or if a UE is not reachable the eNodeB expands a paging area for the considered UE stepwise into other paging coverage classes in order to reach said UE.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR METERING POWER CONSUMPTION OF A DIGITAL SOC FOR PREDICTING BATTERY LIFE

    公开(公告)号:EP3686614A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-29

    申请号:EP19189165.4

    申请日:2019-07-30

    发明人: Hesse, Kay

    摘要: The invention discloses a method for metering power consumption of a digital system-on-chip (SoC) for predicting battery life of a battery used by the SoC. The object to find a possibility to observe and meter the battery life of small, low-cost SoC, especially of IoT systems, which is cheap and compact and space-saving, and which can avoid the need for external components, will be solved by the method comprising the following steps: Partitioning of all digital circuitry of the SoC into voltage and/or clock domains; Metering a power consumption of every domain by counting a charge pulse of each domain every time a gate of said domain has been switched; Accumulating said counted charge pulses of each domain by an accumulator; Calculating an overall sum R of all charges drained from the battery by said domains of the SoC; Post-processing said overall sum R for predicting battery life by an integrated micro-processor; and signaling an imminent battery loss; and an apparatus for performing the method of metering power consumption of a SoC

    SINGLE COMMUNICATION INTERFACE AND A METHOD WITH INTERNAL/EXTERNAL ADDRESSING MODE

    公开(公告)号:EP3660692A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-03

    申请号:EP18208636.3

    申请日:2018-11-27

    IPC分类号: G06F13/42

    摘要: The invention discloses a single communication interface between a master device and at least one slave device and a method with internal/external addressing mode using the single communication interface. The object to provide a leaner communication interface between a master and slave device which is more universal and independent from internal software changes will be solved by a single communication interface between a master device and at least one slave device, whereas the master device comprises a master interface and the slave device comprises a slave interface and a slave bus-system, whereas the slave interface is directly connected to the slave bus-system, wherein the master interface and the slave interface communicate on a packet based protocol by an internal and external addressing mode inside the slave interface, whereas the addressing mode, data direction transfer and data address location are coded by the packet based protocol inside a first 32-bit word of each transmission between the master device and slave device over the single communication interface.

    VERFAHREN UND ANORDNUNG ZUR BLITZLAMPENSTEUERUNG

    公开(公告)号:EP3624564A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-18

    申请号:EP18194343.2

    申请日:2018-09-13

    申请人: Rovak GmbH

    IPC分类号: H05B41/30

    摘要: Der Erfindung, die ein Verfahren zur Blitzlampensteuerung, bei dem ein einen Blitz erzeugender Hauptpuls des Lampenstromes bewirkt und davor ein Vorpuls des Lampenstromes durch Anlegen einer Vorspannung erzeugt wird sowie eine Anordnung betrifft, die eine Blitzlampe mit einer Zündelektrode, eine Vorspannungsquelle, eine Hauptspannungsquelle und ein Steuersystem aufweist, liegt die Aufgabe zugrunde, die Belastung einer Blitzlampe bei der Erzeugung eines Hauptpulses durch eine Vorzündung zu minimieren und diese durch eine einfache elektronische Schaltung zu realisieren und andererseits die Vorzündung für weitere Anwendungen nutzbar und vorteilhaft zu gestalten. Dies wird dadurch gelöst, dass der Vorpuls dadurch erzeugt wird, dass eine zur Vorspannung höhere Plasmaspannung als Elektrodenspannung angelegt wird und mittels einer Zündelektrode ein Plasma in der Blitzlampe gezündet und mittels der Vorspannung während des Vorpulses gehalten wird. Hierzu ist der Vorspannungsquelle rückwirkungsfrei eine Plasmaspannungsquelle parallel geschaltet ist, deren Wirkung durch die Zündelektrode steuerbar ist, wobei die Plasmaspannung größer als die Vorspannung ist. (Fig. 3)

    METHOD FOR PREDICTIVE RECEPTION OF PHYSICAL LAYER DOWNLINK REPETITIONS IN A NB-IOT UE FOR PROLONGED BATTERY LIFETIME

    公开(公告)号:EP3611861A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-19

    申请号:EP18189303.3

    申请日:2018-08-16

    IPC分类号: H04L1/18

    摘要: The invention discloses a method for predictive reception of physical layer downlink repetitions in NB-IoT UE. The object of the invention to find a method that makes it possible to obtain necessary predictions about the receptions of repetitions of data transmitted on the physical layer in order to prolong the battery lifetime of IoT devices will be solved by a method for predictive reception of physical layer downlink repetitions in NB-IoT devices, the method comprising the following steps: estimating an expected number of repeated sub-frames required for a successful reception of a current encoded and in sub-frames rate-matched downlink transmission from a base station to an IoT device by applying a redundancy estimation function, using the estimated expected number of repeated sub-frames as input of a repetition reception control function, wherein a feedback-loop between the redundancy estimation function and the repetition reception control function is used for refining and adapting the predictive reception of physical layer downlink repetitions in NB-IoT.