HotMobile 2020 - Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Mar. 2020, vol. 20, pp. 56–61., 2020 DOI: 10.1145/3376897.3377858

Battery Health Estimation for IoT Devices using V-Edge Dynamics


Arjun Kumar1, Mohammad A. Hoque2, Petteri Nurmi2, Michael G. Pecht3, Sasu Tarkoma2 and Junehwa Song1
1 KAIST, Republic of Korea
2 University of Helsinki, Finland
3 Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE), University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Abstract:

Deployments of battery-powered IoT devices have become ubiquitous, monitoring everything from environmental conditions in smart cities to wildlife movements in remote areas. How to manage the life-cycle of sensors in such large-scale deployments is currently an open issue. Indeed, most deployments let sensors operate until they fail and fix or replace the sensors post-hoc. In this paper, we contribute by developing a new approach for facilitating the life-cycle management of large-scale sensor deployments through online estimation of battery health. Our approach relies on so-called V-edge dynamics which capture and characterize instantaneous voltage drops. Experiments carried out on a dataset of battery discharge measurements demonstrate that our approach is capable of estimating battery health with up to 80% accuracy, depending on the characteristics of the devices and the processing load they undergo. Our method is particularly well-suited for the sensor devices, operating dedicated tasks, that they have constant discharge during their operation.

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