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Design and implementation of a low-power energy management module with emergency reserve for solar powered DTN-nodes

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Michael Doering,

Stephan Rottmann,

Lars WolfAuthors Info & Claims

ExtremeCom '11: Proceedings of the 3rd Extreme Conference on Communication: The Amazon Expedition

Article No.: 6, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/2414393.2414399

Published: 26 September 2011 Publication History

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DTN nodes often idly wait for contacts and unnecessarily consume energy during these periods. For solar-powered nodes this means that solar panels and batteries could be much smaller with an efficient energy management, reducing the physical size of these nodes. We present our design of a solar-powered DTN node including a module that handles solar charge management, energy management and a discovery mechanism to wake sleeping nodes. Moreover, the system senses the remaining battery capacity, and keeps a reserve for emergency communications. Our evaluation shows that the power management module's design is energy-efficient and performs as intended. Furthermore, we evaluate the discovery mechanism. The results show that the capabilities of the module offer a promising new approach to the implementation of energy efficient routing in DTNs.

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DOI:10.1145/2414393

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Kulau UBüsching FWolf L(2016)IdealVoltingACM Transactions on Sensor Networks10.1145/288550012:2(1-38)Online publication date: 15-Apr-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2885500
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