[Tinyos-help] CC2420 RSSI Question

Chad Metcalf metcalfc at gmail.com
Sat Jan 27 12:51:05 PST 2007


Yes. There was a discussion about this a few weeks ago on this list
and some source code from Stanford was posted. Search back.

Chad

On 1/27/07, davivale at nmsu.edu <davivale at nmsu.edu> wrote:
> Platform:  TelosB
> TinyOS version:  2.x
>
> I understand that a receiving node upon reception of a packet can compute the
> RSSI of the transmitting node.  My question is, can the CC2420's RSSI register
> be polled in order to capture the amount of background energy present in the
> channel?    (i.e. when a packet is sent from the transmitting node to the
> basestation and it is not received at the basestation, is it possible to sample
> the RSSI register in order to get the radio energy present in the channel.  I am
> interested in determining what is causing that interference at that particular
> time).  Thanks.
>
> Dave
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