The Ultra Low-PowerWiseNET System

Author

El-Hoiydi, A. ; Arm, C. ; Caseiro, R. ; Cserveny, S. ; Decotignie, J.-D. ; Enz, C. ; Giroud, F. ; Gyger, S. ; Leroux, E. ; Melly, T. ; Peiris, V. ; Pengg, F. ; Pfister, P.-D. ; Raemy, N. ; Ribordy, A. ; Ruffieux, D. ; Volet, P.

Author_Institution

Swiss Center for Electron. & Microtechnology, Neuchatel

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

6-10 March 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The WiseNET system includes an ultra low-power system-on-chip (SoC) hardware platform and WiseMAC, a low power medium access control protocol (MAC) dedicated to duty-cycled radios. Both elements have been designed to meet the specific requirements of wireless sensor networks and are particularly well suited to ad-hoc and hybrid networks. The WiseNET radio offers dual-band operation (434-MHz and 868-MHz) and runs from a single 1.5-V battery. It consumes only 2.5-mW in receive mode with a sensitivity smaller than -108-dBm at a BER of 10^-3 and for a 100-kb/s data rate. In addition to this low-power radio, the WiseNET system-on-chip (SoC) also includes all the functions required for data acquisition, processing and storage of the information provided by the sensors. Ultra-low power consumption with the WiseNET system is achieved thanks to the combination of the low power consumption of the transceiver and the high energy efficiency of the WiseMAC protocol. The WiseNET solution consumes more than 250 times less power than comparable solutions based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; ad hoc networks; error statistics; low-power electronics; system-on-chip; transceivers; wireless sensor networks; 1.5 V; 100 kbit/s; 2.5 mW; 434 MHz; 868 MHz; IEEE 802.15.4; WiseMAC; WiseNET radio; WiseNET system; ad-hoc networks; bit error rate; dual-band operation; duty-cycled radios; hybrid networks; medium access control protocol; system-on-chip; transceiver; wireless sensor networks; Access protocols; Batteries; Bit error rate; Data acquisition; Dual band; Energy consumption; Hardware; Media Access Protocol; System-on-a-chip; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design, Automation and Test in Europe, 2006. DATE '06. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

3-9810801-1-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DATE.2006.243866

Filename

1657032