QM35825 potential industrial sensor use-case

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Hi,

I’m currently researching if QM35825 or DM3000 are good technology candidates for only data transfer of sensor data (e.g. IMU). The use-case will be in an industrial environment/machine where reliability, synchronization, throughput and latency are of great concern. The use-case we have consists of one controller node and multiple (2-8) controlee nodes/sensor nodes configured in a star topology. The high level idea is to use some TDMA scheduling where controlee nodes join the network controlled my the controller. Then each controlee node is assigned a slot to transmit its data to the controller node.

So my question is:

  1. I see FiRa offers Data transfer, HUS, OWR AM, DL-TDOA, and TWR modes. Which mode is most useful in my use-case? (I would think Data transfer or HUS).
  2. Could this use-case be realized using QM35825 with the FiRa Protocols? I see taht UQT and cherry don’t support Data transfer or HUS, how could we best evaluate these modes? Should we write our own program using UCI commands and if so, how can we potentially set this up?
  3. Or do we need to look at developing our own MAC and application layers to support this kind of use-case and if so, which development platform is best suited for this (DW1000, DW3000, or QM35825)?

Thanks in advance,
Martijn