Z-Wave Protocol Controller Reference
Network Monitor Keep alive

This module implements a safety mechanism for wake up nodes. It attempts to keep these nodes awake while an interview and/or inclusion is ongoing. Wake up nodes go into sleep mode after a interval of roughly 10 seconds. This means that if the ZPC is busy handling other nodes we might not be in time to talk to the wake up node before it goes into sleep mode.

Collaboration diagram for Network Monitor Keep alive:

This module implements a safety mechanism for wake up nodes. It attempts to keep these nodes awake while an interview and/or inclusion is ongoing. Wake up nodes go into sleep mode after a interval of roughly 10 seconds. This means that if the ZPC is busy handling other nodes we might not be in time to talk to the wake up node before it goes into sleep mode.

By sending NOP frames to this node we try to prevent it from going to sleep. When the interview of this node is done we stop sending NOP frames.

If the device did not responded for 15 seconds, we give up trying to send NOP frames