Honeywell International Inc.
DAISY-CHAINED POWER-OVER-ETHERNET (POE) NETWORK

Abstract:

A system that maintains power consumption of a network to a predefined limit. A plurality of elements such as components, nodes and modules may be connected in a daisy chain configuration. Power may be inserted to one or more of the elements which may proceed down the chain to be consumed by the one or more elements. However, there a limit as to the total amount of energy that may be consumed at the same time. Thus, power to the elements may be scheduled so that the limit is not exceeded by at any one time. At the same time, communications may proceed through that chain from element to element. An example of the present system may be a power over a network (PoE).