Software-based sensor node energy estimation

  • Authors:
  • Adam Dunkels;Fredrik Österlind;Nicolas Tsiftes;Zhitao He

  • Affiliations:
  • Swedish Institute of Computer Science;Swedish Institute of Computer Science;Swedish Institute of Computer Science;Swedish Institute of Computer Science

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Being able to estimate the energy consumption of sensor nodes is essential both for evaluating existing sensor network mechanisms and for constructing new energy-aware mechanisms. We present a software-based mechanism for estimating the energy consumption of sensor node at run-time. Unlike previous energy estimation mechanisms, our mechanism does not require any additional hardware components or add-ons. Our demonstration shows the energy estimation in practice on a small network of Tmote Sky motes running the Contiki operating system. A PC connected to one of the motes shows the real-time energy estimation of the network nodes and where the energy is spent: CPU active, CPU sleeping, radio transmitting, radio listening, and LEDs.