[Tinyos-help] about power detect

[Philip Levis]

On Mar 2, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Michael Schippling wrote:

> Search back on this list for a lot of discussion on battery life.
> But the basic answer is: you can't.
> MS
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> jiwen zhang wrote:
>> Hello all:
>>   I am using tinyos-2.x, i want to know how to detect how much  
>> power is left in the node or how we know whetherpower of a node  
>> will exhaust?
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Michael's right. While a node can be designed to be able to measure  
such things, it requires certain hardware to do so, which nodes today  
typically do not have.

Phil