The second part of my response talks about s/w solutions but it requires a
really good time base driving the timer that you are using for the
measurements.



On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Faisal Aslam <[email protected]>wrote:

> Thank you Eric for your reply.
>
> We have meters that we could use to measure energy consumption. However,
> we are looking for software solution so that we can present duty cycles on
> remote third party networks and publish results. Doing it on our own
> network with energy meter might not be acceptable for the reviewers.
>
> best regards,
> Faisal
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Eric Decker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I do not know of any instrumentation in the existing code base that
>> provides for this.
>>
>> What I've done in the past is we instrumented mcusleep by toggling a pin
>> that we could observe with an oscilliscope and watched the duty cycle of
>> our particular application.
>>
>> If you have a rock solid time base you could also instrument by capturing
>> timing when you go to sleep and wake up.
>>
>> None of the above takes into account any other hardware that you may have
>> running in parallel with the mote sleepage.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Faisal Aslam <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We are working on a new collection protocol. We want to know how energy
>>> efficient our protocol is by measuring motes duty cycles. To accomplish
>>> this I could dig in the TinyOS code to locate what should I change.
>>> However, it will save my time if someone reply back with specifics.
>>>
>>> Thanking you in anticipation.
>>>
>>> best regards,
>>> Faisal
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Eric B. Decker
>> Senior (over 50 :-) Researcher
>>
>>
>


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