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