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10 years, 4 months ago.

Measuring Power Consumption

What software is used to measure current consumption and make battery life estimates?

The one used in here: https://developer.mbed.org/teams/Bluetooth-Low-Energy/wiki/Managing-Power-on-mbed-BLE

Thank you.

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Bluetooth Low Energy (a.k.a Bluetooth LE, BTLE, Bluetooth Smart)

2 Answers

Rohit Grover
10 years, 4 months ago.

we used the Monsoon power monitor (https://www.msoon.com/LabEquipment/PowerMonitor/) and its accompanying software for these results.

Accepted Answer
Yihui Xiong
10 years, 4 months ago.

You can use https://developer.mbed.org/platforms/Seeed-Tiny-BLE/. It integrates power measuring feature.

http://www.seeedstudio.com/wiki/images/0/02/Ble_smurfs_monitor_preview.png

Can you elaborate on wow does this power measurement work? I noticed there a note that a specific baudrate needs to be set?

posted by Martin Kojtal 19 May 2015

The current measuring function is added in the circuit. When >4000000 baudrate is set, the function will be triggered and the serial port will output measuring data

posted by Yihui Xiong 21 May 2015