Simulation of a Low Power Wake-Up Receiver for Wireless Sensor Network

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) consists of spatially distributed autonomous sensors to observe physical or environmental conditions like temperature, sound, pressure, etc. and to cooperatively pass their data through the network to a main location. A wake-up receiver is employed in wireless detector networks to reduce the power consumption. Wake-up receivers are activated after detection and improve data network performance. Energy dissipation is reduced by maximizing data transceivers sleep time. In this paper, we have designed and simulated a wake-up receiver which shows power consumption of 101.7μW. The wake-up receiver is simulated at 90nm technology on Tanner EDA tool version 13.0.