A practical microwatt-meter for electrical energy measurement in programmable devices
Background: In this work, an accurate low-cost power microwatt-meter is designed, built, and tested. This microwatt-meter is found to be capable of measuring power consumption in a wide range of devices and sensors, such as nodes in wireless sensor networks, microcontrollers in Internet of Things de...
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| author | Mohammad Y Al-Shorman Majd M Al-Kofahi Osameh M Al-Kofahi |
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| description | Background: In this work, an accurate low-cost power microwatt-meter is designed, built, and tested. This microwatt-meter is found to be capable of measuring power consumption in a wide range of devices and sensors, such as nodes in wireless sensor networks, microcontrollers in Internet of Things devices, and Field Programmable Gate Arrays. Methods: The paper examines the usage of the microwatt-meter for the measurement of power consumption in digital devices as they execute program instructions, ranging from a low-level single step (instruction) in an assembly program to a high-level sophisticated program or system. Results: The results obtained showed that the microwatt-meter is highly accurate. It can measure the energy consumed by any of the devices/programs/instructions in a digital system with accuracy levels ranging between 0.5% and 2.5% (depending on the application). Conclusion: The accuracy of the microwatt-meter is validated using the fundamental conservation of energy law and a comparison with multimeter current measurements is presented. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c4fe74e2a775401eb41584c6bc78605a2023-05-29T13:03:53ZengSAGE PublishingMeasurement + Control0020-29402018-11-015110.1177/0020294018794350A practical microwatt-meter for electrical energy measurement in programmable devicesMohammad Y Al-Shorman0Majd M Al-Kofahi1Osameh M Al-Kofahi2Department of Physics, Yarmouk University, Irbid, JordanDepartment of Information Technology, Al-Huson College, Al-Balqa’ Applied University, Salt, JordanDepartment of Computer Engineering, Yarmouk University, Irbid, JordanBackground: In this work, an accurate low-cost power microwatt-meter is designed, built, and tested. This microwatt-meter is found to be capable of measuring power consumption in a wide range of devices and sensors, such as nodes in wireless sensor networks, microcontrollers in Internet of Things devices, and Field Programmable Gate Arrays. Methods: The paper examines the usage of the microwatt-meter for the measurement of power consumption in digital devices as they execute program instructions, ranging from a low-level single step (instruction) in an assembly program to a high-level sophisticated program or system. Results: The results obtained showed that the microwatt-meter is highly accurate. It can measure the energy consumed by any of the devices/programs/instructions in a digital system with accuracy levels ranging between 0.5% and 2.5% (depending on the application). Conclusion: The accuracy of the microwatt-meter is validated using the fundamental conservation of energy law and a comparison with multimeter current measurements is presented.https://doi.org/10.1177/0020294018794350 |
| spellingShingle | Mohammad Y Al-Shorman Majd M Al-Kofahi Osameh M Al-Kofahi A practical microwatt-meter for electrical energy measurement in programmable devices Measurement + Control |
| title | A practical microwatt-meter for electrical energy measurement in programmable devices |
| title_full | A practical microwatt-meter for electrical energy measurement in programmable devices |
| title_fullStr | A practical microwatt-meter for electrical energy measurement in programmable devices |
| title_full_unstemmed | A practical microwatt-meter for electrical energy measurement in programmable devices |
| title_short | A practical microwatt-meter for electrical energy measurement in programmable devices |
| title_sort | practical microwatt meter for electrical energy measurement in programmable devices |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/0020294018794350 |
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