A distributed Wireless Sensor Network testbed with energy consumption estimation. (2nd August 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sheu, Jang-Ping; Chang, Chia-Chi; Yang, Wei-Sheng
• Is Part Of: International journal of ad hoc and ubiquitous computing. Volume 6:Number 2(2010)
• Page Start: 63
• Page End: 74
• Publication Date: 2010-08-02
• Subjects: embedded systems -- power consumption estimation -- WSNs -- wireless sensor networks -- WSN testbed -- distributed architecture -- wireless networks -- sensor nodes; Ubiquitous computing -- Periodicals; Embedded computer systems -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Wireless communication systems -- Periodicals; Computer architecture -- Periodicals; 004.2
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8225

Abstract

In this paper, we design and implement a WSN testbed with a distributed architecture. It allows researchers to submit their experiments and to retrieve the results from the central server. In the testbed, we also propose a software-based hardware-supported scheme to measure the energy consumption of running sensor nodes. And we compare our energy-consumption estimation with oscilloscope measurements. The results show that the energy consumption is very close to oscilloscope measurements.