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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tinyos-help mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Eric B. Decker >> Senior (over 50 :-) Researcher >> >> > -- Eric B. Decker Senior (over 50 :-) Researcher
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