Battery Lifetime Prediction Model for a WSN Platform

Wireless Sensor Network devices have by nature limited available energy to perform a wide range of demanding tasks. In order to maximize their operation lifetime, optimal resource management is an important challenge and its success requires methodical modeling of the factors contributing to the overall power consumption. Moreover, the power consumed is not always useful on its own, but it should rather express the expected lifetime concerning the device's normal operation. To achieve such awareness, this paper contributes with a measuring methodology which involves combining power consumption of platform elementary functionalities with battery discharge characteristics, so that a practical, yet accurate battery lifetime prediction model can be formed.