A generic framework for energy evaluation on wireless sensor networks

Due to reliance on batteries, energy consumption has always been of significant concern for sensor node networks. This work presents the design and implementation of a house-build experimental platform, named Energy Management System for Wireless Sensor Networks (EMrise) for the energy management and exploration on wireless sensor networks. Consisting of three parts, the SystemC-based simulation environment of EMrise enables the HW/SW co-simulation for energy evaluation on heterogeneous sensor networks. The hardware platform of EMrise is further designed to facilitate the realistic energy consumption measurement and calibration as well as accurate energy exploration. In the meantime, a generic genetic algorithm based optimization framework of EMrise is also implemented to automatically, quickly and intelligently fine tune hundreds of possible solutions for the given task to find the best suitable energy-aware tradeoffs.