Lab 10. Performance estimator

The "Dust Networks SmartMesh Power and Performance Estimator" (https://www.analog.com/en/technical-articles/smartmesh-power-and-performance-estimator.html) is a Excel-based tool which allows you to evaluate the performance of your network, given a set of constraints.

  • Download and open the performance estimator.

You probably have to enable the contents to be able to run the estimator

  • Assume that you have

    • 1 manager

    • 20 1-hop motes

    • 20 2-hop motes

    • each mote sends an 80-byte data packet every 30s

  • In the "Estimator" tab, enter parameters corresponding to the setup described above. What setting did you use?

number of motes per depth

 

requested service

 

reporting interval

 

payload size

 

path stability

 

supply voltage

 

temperature

 

Answer 1:

  • What is the resulting estimated performance of your nodes?

Average current consumption at 1 hop

 

Average current consumption at 2 hops

 

mean upstream (US) latency at 1 hop

 

mean upstream (US) latency at 2 hops

 

  • Using the "Battery Life" tab, convert the average current consumption figures in the table above into lifetime, for the following batteries:

 

CR2032

L-91 AA

TL9530D

 

CR2032

L-91 AA

TL9530D

battery lifetime for 1-hop motes

 

 

 

battery lifetime for 2-hop motes