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Can a battery-operated device take part in routing?

April 26, 2017battery-operated device routing

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Can a battery-operated device take part in routing?

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Yes, although a routing device has to be listening all the time, which shortens the battery lifetime. Normally a Z-Wave system will be designed to use the AC powered nodes for routing and the battery-operated nodes will wake up when needed.