Estimating battery life for IoT devices has always been challenging. You need seamless ranging, fast bandwidth, and event-based power analysis just to get started. But real-world IoT devices don’t always behave in predictable ways. They have to adapt and respond to environmental changes, RF interference, and demands from other devices, especially in contexts such as mesh networks and load-balancing edge computing architectures. How can you possibly begin to estimate battery life in such contexts?

​​IoT Devices have very fast transitions between low-power sleep modes and active modes with much higher current levels. So why would anybody want to use low-bandwidth current measurements? It may seem counterintuitive, but in many cases, going slow may turn out to be the best option.

Everybody agrees that long battery life is important, especially for IoT devices and implanted medical devices. But people disagree on exactly what battery life means. If you’re not speaking the same language as your customer, you could face a disappointing surprise!

Join this 30-minute panel talk on device battery life, where Keysight experts will discuss real design and test challenges and how to overcome them.