Power Management

The CTM-500 wireless gateway has two power modes:

Mode	Current @ 12V	Description	Mode change event

Mode

Current @ 12V

Description

Mode change event

Standby

10 mA

Device is in low power mode.

The device may spend most of its time in this mode. Various configurable triggers will transition the device out of this mode and into Operating Mode

Operating

400 mA

Device is operating, can communicate with peripherals, Serial, Ethernet, CAN, GPIO, GNSS

The device will go back into standby mode when the ignition/standby signal is deactivated or upon expiry of the power ON timer if configured.

Power management is controlled either by ignition or CAN Bus. By default, the CTM-500 remains powered on continuously when connected to external power with power management disabled.