I wanted to ask if someone know about the energy consumption of an arduino shield with zegbee .
So, if there are , differences between the instantaneous consumption and that over time. Thank yo all
Firstly which shield? Which Zigbee? Have you looked at the Zigbee datasheet?
Yes the consumption will be bursty, most power on packet transmit, less on receive and
hopefully almost nothing on standby (not receiving).
You can estimate power consumption just to the transmit side as about twice to three times
the RF transmit power or thereabouts.
You can measure RX power as its steady, measuring the TX peaks is tricky, a multimeter
will time average the current.
I have an arduino one with a ZigBee s2 shield, and I determine the location of a moving object through triangulation .
Therefore , I wanted to understand whether to use this technology for the control of road vehicles had sustainable costs for infrastructure managers