The Smaller the Better: Designing Solar Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes for Long-Range Monitoring

Table 2

Intermediate and output parameters description.

Name	Unit	Description
	mA	average consumed current of a transmission in active mode
	mA	average consumed current of a transmission in sleep mode
	mA	average consumed current of a sensing operation
	mA	average consumed current of a radio transmission
	mA	total average consumed current
	V	supercapacity voltage
	V	battery voltage
	F	capacity of the supercapacity
	mA.s	electric charge of the battery
	mJ	consumed energy during a day
	mJ	harvested energy over one available day
	mW	instantaneous power of the supply