Applications of an Ultra Low-Power Analog Wake-up Detector for Environmental IoT Networks and Military Smart Dust

Being used for synchronizing and triggering environmental and military Internet of Things (IoT) wireless networks, an ultra low power wake-up system based on frequency analysis is presented in this paper. With an average power consumption of 34μW, this wake-up detector is able to detect signals in different frequency bands, generating a separate output interrupt for each of them. Adding an additional frequency band detector only costs an additional 500nA. Applications to data retrieval in a military smart dust using a drone on a battlefield, and for activation and synchronization of a environmental wireless sensor network are presented. This later uses a multi-frequency light pulses burst propagation algorithm for triggering a whole wireless sensor network in harsh conditions such as a dense rain forest in 50ms, and for synchronizing it with a timing precision of less than 20μs in a large network.