Ideal mote

Here be dragons. No, wait... Here be ideas for the bestest mote evah...

But seriously, list of features (and benefits) for the better sensor node (hardware).

Computation

• multicore

Communication

• SDR
• Supports backcast
• supports

Energy

• Zero consumption (plus epsilon)
• Modular harwesting

Sensors

• stores calibration data

Misc

• Has a global unique ID.
• Stores and reports capabilities data,
  • MCU, Memory sizes
  • attached sensors

=Debugging and Run time assurance

• Reports battery state
• Option for power consumption measurements on-demand