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REACH²-Mote: A Range-Extending Passive Wake-Up Wireless Sensor Node

Authors:

Wendi Heinzelman,

Ilker Demirkol,

Kaushik Chowdhury,

Stefano BasagniAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Volume 11, Issue 4

Article No.: 64, Pages 1 - 33

https://doi.org/10.1145/2829954

Published: 23 December 2015 Publication History

Abstract

A wireless sensor network that employs passive radio wake-up of the sensor nodes can reduce the energy cost for unnecessary idle listening and communication overhead, extending the network lifetime. A passive wake-up radio is powered by the electromagnetic waves transmitted by a wake-up transmitter rather than a battery on the sensor node. However, this method of powering the wake-up radio results in a short wake-up range, which limits the performance of a passive wake-up radio sensor network. In this article, we describe our design of a passive wake-up radio sensor node—REACH²-Mote—using a high-efficiency, energy-harvesting module and a very low power wake-up circuit to achieve an extended wake-up range. We implemented REACH²-Mote in hardware and performed field tests to characterize its performance. The experimental results show that REACH²-Mote can achieve a wake-up range of 44 feet. We also modeled REACH²-Mote and evaluated its performance through simulations, comparing its performance to that of another passive wake-up radio approach, an active wake-up radio approach, and a conventional duty cycling approach. The simulation results show that REACH²-Mote can significantly extend the network lifetime while achieving high packet delivery rate and low latency.

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ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks Volume 11, Issue 4

December 2015

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DOI:10.1145/2782756

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Published: 23 December 2015

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Revised: 01 July 2015

Received: 01 September 2014

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