Experiments with a solar-powered Sun SPOT

  • Authors:
  • Vipul Gupta

  • Affiliations:
  • Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Menlo Park, CA

  • Venue:
  • Experiments with a solar-powered Sun SPOT
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Sun SPOTs are small, battery-powered, wireless embedded devices that can autonomically sense and respond to their environment. These devices have the potential to revolutionize a broad spectrum of applications -- environmental monitoring, asset tracking, proactive healthcare, intelligent agriculture, military surveillance, etc. Many of these require the device to run for long periods (months) using a combination of duty cycling and renewable energy sources (e.g., solar panels). This note describes lessons learnt while collecting data from a solar-powered SPOT for a period of nearly four weeks.