RTL8720DF power consumption while maintaining MQTT connection with server

Hi,

I went through the datasheet and application note for the SoC but was not able to find details about the power consumption of the SoC. I am looking to use the SoC for a battery-powered application.
The SoC is required to maintain an MQTT connection with the server in different DTIM modes.

Regards

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Hi @Jitendra_Singh
You ca refer to this deep sleep mode guide as a reference,

The power consumptions of Deep Sleep mode is around 7μA to 8μA as compared to normal state which is around 22mA

However, maintaining WiFi connection and MQTT will consume abit more, but exact data are to be determined according to user’s application and environment

Is there an example of using wifi and sleep mode available?

Please find power save examples via our Github : https://github.com/ambiot/ambd_arduino/blob/dev/Arduino_package/hardware/libraries/PowerSave/examples/DeepSleepMode/DeepSleepMode.ino
Meanwhile, Wi-Fi related examples can be found here:
https://github.com/ambiot/ambd_arduino/tree/dev/Arduino_package/hardware/libraries/WiFi
Thanks

I’ve looked at both of those examples but (unless i’m missing something) there doesn’t seem to be support wakeup from wlan in them.

Does anyone have an example where sleep mode is used with wifi?

I did find this post but can’t find the code to the sample mentioned, so if anyone has that it might help: Power Management – Use WiFi in sleep mode – Realtek IoT/Wi-Fi MCU Solutions (amebaiot.com)

Hi @wingee, I think currently there is no such example code for sleep mode with wifi. That example is probably written quite some time ago, and we are unable to find the source code for that example. This feature has to be ported again. This can be a possible future improvements to the existing examples.

Thank you.