[Tinyos Core WG] Power Management Tutorial

[Philip Levis]

On Oct 23, 2006, at 11:25 PM, Kevin Klues wrote:

> I am thinking of changing this to more of a "Resource Management
> Tutorial" which includes how to power a device on/off in the absence
> of one of the default power managers.  For one, a tutorial on using
> non-virtualized resources seems to be missing, and secondly, the
> process of actually powering a device on and off is pretty tirival.
> Are there any objections?

I think generalizing it to resource management sounds reasonable. But  
the critical thing that the tutorial needs to make clear is "how do I  
get my node into a low power state?" The earlier tutorials will have  
introduced turning things on. Remember, these are introductory  
tutorials, so don't need to go into "how do I use an arbiter to  
create a new queueing policy," or even how the power management part  
of the arbiters work. Rather, just explain how to use them.

Phil