Efficiently Monitoring Energy Usage in Battery Powered Systems
On-demand webcast:
Aired live: December 20, 2017 02:00 PM EST
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Monitoring energy and power can be useful for many reasons. Beyond power management for power and energy savings, changes in energy usage can point to changes in a system that need to be addressed, such as higher than expected energy usage due to a software update or component failure.
This presentation looks briefly at traditional methods for measuring power and energy and presents a more modern solution based on the PAC1934 from Microchip Technology. This device enables very accurate measurement of voltage, current, power, and accumulated power. With very little system overhead energy usage can be accurately measured.
Speaker:
Thomas Anderson, Staff Engineer, Microchip Technology
Moderator:
Curt Schwaderer, OpenSystems Media
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