Title: A distributed Wireless Sensor Network testbed with energy consumption estimation

Authors: Jang-Ping Sheu, Chia-Chi Chang, Wei-Sheng Yang

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Chung-Li 32001, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Chung-Li 32001, Taiwan

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.

Keywords: embedded systems; power consumption estimation; WSNs; wireless sensor networks; WSN testbed; distributed architecture; wireless networks; sensor nodes.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2010.034321

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2010 Vol.6 No.2, pp.63 - 74

Published online: 31 Jul 2010 *

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