Purdue Mote

Purdue Mote developed for OpCoast OrthopterNet -- Insect Based Wireless Sensor Network

[ Module ]

- Size: 12.36mm * 12.36mm (antenna + RF front-end + digital baseband processor + audio sensor interface)

- Weight: 1.05 gram

- Front-end: 2.4GHz custom RF IC

- Baseband processor: TI CC2530 (compatible with ZigBee)

- Support peer-to-peer and daisy-chain configurations

[ Mounted on Insects ]

[ Custom RF Front-end IC ]

- Low-power and high-sensitivity

• Serkan Sayilir, Wing-Fai Loke, Jangjoon Lee, Harry Diamond, Benjamin Epstein, David L. hodes, and Byunghoo Jung, "A -90dBm sensitivity wireless transceiver using VCO-PA-LNA-switch-modulator co-design for low power insect-based wireless sensor networks," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 49, pp. 996-1006, April 2014.