This is included in the PowerTOSSIM paper:
Simulating the power consumption of large-scale sensor network applications

The way to test the individual components is to lift the power pin to that
component and attach an ammeter in series.

-Joe

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Subject: [Tinyos-help] Power consumption of mica2


Does anyone ever tried to measure power consumption on mica2?

It is shown on ATMEL manual (mica2 page 20 - section power) that the 
current consuption of processor isolated is 0.010mA... However, when I try 
to measure the current of a simple program only using component "Main" its 
consuption becomes 3.48mA. It's because the "Main" component actually 
calls another components initialization like "hardwareInit", "Pot.init" 
and a scheduler wich it probably uses for enqueue tasks preempted by 
events (files $TOSDIR/tos/system/Main.nc and RealMain.nc).

Is there a way to test the components like processor, flash and radio 
individually in a program???

Thanks!!!!

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Daniel Andrade Costa Silva
Computer Science - UFMG - Brasil
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