Enhance frequency from int to float and have 2 digits transmitted about cayennelpp HOT 2 CLOSED

Just a note on this.
Cayenne is based on original IPSO data types. IPSO data structure does allow to define the unit as optional field, but since Cayenne data structure does not have an option to define the unit this specific data type (ISP 3318, CayenneLPP 118) defaults to Hertz which is the SI and ISO31-7 unit.
As much as I undertand the problem, changing it to a float will cause a big backwards incompatibility issue. My suggestion is that you encode it as 0.1Hz units and decode it back in your server. If I'm not wrong, grid frequency is around 50 or 60Hz depending on where you are living so you have plenty of room for decimals in a 4 bytes value.

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Hello @g6094199 !

We appreciate you bringing this issue to our attention. Truly appreciated you have taken the time out of your day.
Could you please a pull request with the correction you are mentioning? I will communicate this to our Engineering Team to review your pull request and fix this as quickly as possible.
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