Performance of motes in Wireless Sensor Networks

The network of nodes with sensing technology and wireless capability is termed as Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). WSN has high potential to adapt to the changes of how we live. Its budding technology makes the motes communicate with each other efficiently. The sensor nodes in WSN are referred as motes and they form the main building blocks for creating a network. The motes need to work efficiently and thus we present performance metrics that includes power consumption, size, cost, memory management, mote sensitivity, and OS for motes configuration. Certain challenges and constraints are designed for each mote in terms of low cost, limited communicational capabilities and low energy requirements. Many applications of WSN use different types of motes such as TinyNode, IRIS and Sun SPOT which can improve the performance of the network.