SENTIOF: An FPGA Based High-Performance and Low-Power Wireless Embedded Platform

Traditional wireless sensor nodes are designed with low-power modules that offer limited computational performance and communication bandwidth and therefore, are generally applicable to low-sample rate intermittent monitoring applications. Nevertheless, high-sample rate monitoring applications can be realized by designing sensor nodes that can perform high-throughput in-sensor processing, while maintaining low-power characteristics. In this paper, a high-performance and low-power wireless hardware platform is presented. With its compact size and modular structure enabling there to be an integrated customized sensor layer, it can be used for a wide variety of applications. In addition, the flexibility provided through dynamically configurable interfaces and power management, helps optimizing performance and power consumption for different applications.