Research Article
An Autonomous Wireless Sensor Node Based on Hybrid RF Solar Energy Harvesting
Table 4
Power Consumption of the node’s digital modules.
| Device | State | Current (μA) | Power (μW) |
| PIC | Sleep | 0.04 | 0.072 | Message RX | 230 | 423 | Processing | 410 | 738 | Temp. measurement | 800 | 1440 | False wakeup | 230 | 423 |
| FRAM | Sleep | 0.03 | 0.054 | Idle | 4.00 | 7.200 | Storage (read) | 2130 | 3834 | Storage (write) | 2315 | 4167 |
| SPIRIT1 | Sleep | 0.02 | 0.036 | Ready state | 430 | 774 | VCO calibration | 6720 | 12334 | TX (−30 dBm) | 9580 | 17558 |
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