Particle Boron - Power consumption?

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I don't have a SARA-R410M device yet so I haven't run any tests. However, LTE Cat M1 and NB1 were specifically designed for low-power applications, so the negotiation should be more efficient, but I don't know how much more.

This post has graphs of power consumption during cellular connection (blinking green) and cloud connection (blinking cyan) so you can see roughly how much of it is high power consumption for 3G.

Choosing an Electron sleep mode

There are several sleep modes available on the Electron, and choosing the correct one can make a large difference in the amount of battery usage, data, and time to connect. There is no one best method, however it mostly depends on the amount of time you plan to sleep. There is also a wildly inaccurate calculator that you can use to get a wild guess of how long a battery will last and how much data it will use. Updates to this document can be found on Github along with the test code. The four …