PowWow
PowWow (Power Optimized Hardware and Software FrameWork for Wireless Motes) is a wireless sensor network (WSN) mote developed by the Cairn team of IRISA/INRIA. The platform is currently based on IEEE 802.15.4 standard radio transceiver and on an MSP430 microprocessor. Unlike other available mote systems, PowWow offers specific features for a very-high energy efficiency:[1]
- the MAC layer is based on an asynchronous rendezvous scheme initiated by the receiver,
- architectural and circuit level optimizations were performed such as power management, frequency and voltage scaling and FPGA co-processing for low power,
- the software stack is very light (5 kbytes) uses event-driven programming and is currently derived from the Protothread library of Contiki.