Evaluación del consumo de energía de la plataforma Zolertia ReMote y comparación con la plataforma Zolertia Z1 mediante la implementación de una aplicación IoT.

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) advances in its goal of connecting people, machines and, in general terms, any object to interact with each other. To increase the number of objects connected to the Internet, small devices that are used in wireless sensor networks (WSN) are required. The nodes used in wireless sensors networks, because of their small size, use battery for energy, therefore, it is important to take into account the energy consumption to increase their autonomy. This work focuses on finding the energy that the Zolertia ReMote platform consumes in a typical IoT application, in which a user can observe data from any node in a WSN and also modify the behavior of the nodes when sending them configuration parameters. It is analyzed several waveforms in relation to the current consumption of the Zolertia ReMote platform in different states like active, LPM (Low Power Mode), Transmission and Reception. With the results, the energy consumption of this platform is calculated. The results are compared with the energy consumption of the Zolertia Z1 platform under the same scenario and with the same operating conditions, in order to determine what platform is better in terms of autonomy.