Power-Management Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks and Similar Low-Power Communication Devices Based on Nonrechargeable Batteries

Table 1

Typical power profile for a WSN node.

	MCU	Sensors	Radio
Active (regular operation)	5 mW	30 mW	350 mW
Inactive (power saving)	2 μW	5 μW	20 μW
Inactive (power gating)	2 μW	1 μW	1 μW