A Methodology for Designing Power Management in Autonomous Low-power Nodes

Aikaterini Kalaitzopoulou, Vasileios Konstantakos, Theodore Laopoulos
Abstract:
A methodology is presented for the development of a power management configuration, based on a microcontroller, for use in autonomous low-power systems. First, the work presents an overview of the different approaches in the literature about the appropriate considerations towards evaluating power consumed by different operations in such systems, and then proposes a new design procedure. A case study is implemented on the basis of the proposed methodology, by using conventional hardware (microcontroller, modules) in a typical application. The power consumption behavior of this case study is explored by real experimental powerconsumption measurements. All the above steps form a methodology which is proposed as a general approach to power management design of low-power autonomous nodes, as usually is needed in most wireless sensor networks based on energy harvesting.
Keywords:
microcontrollers, low-power design, power consumption, power management.
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Event details
IMEKO TC:
TC4
Event name:
TC4 Symposium 2014
Title:

20th IMEKO TC4 Symposium on Measurements of Electrical Quantities (together with 18th TC4 International Workshop on ADC and DCA Modeling and Testing, IWADC)
"Research on Electrical and Electronic Measurement for the Economic Upturn"

Place:
Benevento, ITALY
Time:
15 September 2014 - 17 September 2014