Modern radios’ high power efficiencies are achieved through multiple means; adaptive signal strength and low duty cycles are some of those. Both antennas being

Modern radios’ high power efficiencies are achieved through multiple means; adaptive signal strength and low duty cycles are some of those. Both antennas being small and low on the ground means much lower RSSI, which causes higher adaptive transmission power and higher duty cycle due to lower SnR meaning lower bandwidth and increased retransmissions. Normally, device negitiates a paging interval at which it gets new data notifications from the base station. With multiple devices, you have to wake up N times as often because each of your N peers has a different paging time, and you’d have to also wake up even more for new peer discovery. Average one-way latency can’t be lower than half the length of your paging period when your receiver is off times the number of hops to the target.