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             PURE LED



             PURE LED ADVANTAGES





                      PLED                    ZIGBEE - 6LoWPAN - Thread BLE mesh             LoRaWAN

       Category       De-centralized mesh     IEEE 802.15.4 –based mesh Flooded mesh         LPWAN (star)

                                                                                             Optimized for battery-
                      - Large scale           Small scale home area   Small scale home area   powered end-devices
       Characteristics
                      - High reliability      networks               networks                Seldom transmissions
                                                                                             Sparse installations
       Performance
       profiles       Multiple operation modes  Single operating mode  Single operating mode  Single operating mode
       (fit for
       purpose)
       Lighting                               Profile only,application  Profiles only, application
       application    Yes                                                                    No
       layer                                  to be created          to be build
                      Yes - Automatic role    No - Central coordinator,
       Homogeneous    section                 routers, end           No                      Yes - End devices
       devices                                                       Routers, end devices
                      Yes                     devices
                                              Yes (depends on        Yes (depends on
       OTA                                                                                   No
                                              implementation)        implementation)
       Bi-directional                         Yes                    Yes                     Limited ( duty cycle)

                      Yes
       Low power      All devices (incl. routing)   No               No                      Yes
                      can be battery-operated  Routers mains-powered  Routers mains-powered  If end nodes TX seldom


                      High
                      De-centralized operation                       Limited
       Scale (number   Multi-gateway with load   Limited Central control  Flooded routing    Limited
       of devices,    balancing Every device can  Dedicated routers                          Star topology
       coverage,      route                   Contention-based channel   Dedicated routers   Random access protocol
       density)       Locally synchronized    access Single channel  Contention-based channel   Long TX time-on-air
                                                                     access 3 channels
                      channel access
                      Multi-channel


                      Reliability adaptive routing
                      Collision-free          Limited                                        Limited
                      Adaptive TX power control                      Limited                 Base station SPoF
                      Local adaptation        Intra-network interference  Intra-network interference  Intra-network interference
       Reliability                            No channel blacklisting
                      No SPoF                 (single channel)       No channel blacklisting  No channel blacklisting
                      Multi-channel with local   Central control SPoF  (3 channels) No acks  Use of acks limited (duty
                      channel blacklisting                                                   cycle)
                      Acks & re-TX




                                                                                  LARGE SCALE

                                                                           HIGH RELIABILITY

                                                         MULTIPLE OPERATIONS MODE
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