Title :
Characterization of battery consumption in 802.15.4/ZigBee sensor motes
Author :
Casilari, E. ; Campos-Garrido, G. ; Cano-García, J.M.
Author_Institution :
Dipt. Tecnol. Electron., Univ. of Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Abstract :
Battery consumption is a key aspect in the performance of wireless sensor networks. One of the most promising technologies for this type of networks is 802.15.4/ZigBee. This paper presents an empirical characterization of battery consumption in commercial 802.15.4/ZigBee motes. This characterization is based on the measurement of the current that is drained from the power source under different operations of 802.15.4 communications. The measurements permit to define a model to predict the battery lifetime of a sensor networking application as a function of the sensor duty cycle and the size of sensed data.
Keywords :
IEEE standards; battery management systems; personal area networks; wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.15.4; ZigBee sensor motes; battery consumption; battery lifetime; current measurement; wireless sensor networks; Batteries; Battery charge measurement; Current measurement; Microcontrollers; Multiaccess communication; Time measurement; Zigbee;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Bari
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6390-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISIE.2010.5637791
