Otii Review: Super Low Electrical Energy Meter || DIY or Buy || Is measuring µA/nA possible the DIY way?
It’s time again for one of Great Scott’s famous “DIY or Buy” episodes. This time with our Otii Arc playing the leading role.
Energy benchmark platform for mobile apps
Imperial College London student Leszek made use of Energio & Otii to benchmark applications Reddit, BaconReader, RedReader & Relay for Android.
Otii in Use: How to Make a Better Hand Sanitizer with Arduino!
Probably now more relevant than ever, Kevin Darrah conducted a fun project to improve a super cheap soap dispenser to be used with hand sanitizer.
Otii in Use: Lowest Power (~3uA) MOTION Sensor – WiFi Connected with trigBoard
Kevin Darrah couldn’t believe how low the standby current of his PIR sensor was and had to make a video about it – comparing the AM312 based sensor at ~13uA total, the Panasonic EKMB1201111 shown in the video here totals up to ~3uA, which includes the trigBoard.
Explained: Sigfox transmissions and power consumption using Murata CMW1ZZABZ and StickTrackr
We have asked Otii user and IoT maker Paul Pinault to share his insights and knowledge about Sigfox transmission and what to expect when looking at its power consumption.
Tapping into the low power consumption of cellular LPWAN technologies (NB-IoT and LTE-M)
Get to know how to set power saving modes of NB-IoT and LTE-M and how the measure the power consumption.
Otii in Use: Sleep Mode breaks on cheap Pro-Mini? Testing ATMEGA328 – is it counterfeit?
Kevin Darrah is back with another video about a possible counterfeit. To see what was going on there Kevin of course, uses Otii to investigate.
Analyzing power consumption of cellular IoT devices with Otii and a network simulator
Peter Macejko, a Wireless Specialist at Anritsu, paired Otii Arc with a network simulator MT8821C to analyze the power consumption of cellular IoT systems.
Sensefarm use case: Giving Sensefarm its Power back
Using Otii Arc and the Otii Battery Toolbox, agtech startup Sensefarm was able to eliminate the underlying cause of the frequent battery failure.
Otii in Use: ESP32 Secrets: Interrupts, and Deep-Sleep under the Hood
Andreas Spiess diggs into the topic of speedy reactions and deep sleep and looks under hood of the ESP32 promising to uncover some secrets. And of course, he will use his Otii Arc for measuring the power consumption of the devices in testing.
Otii in Use: Otii – Optimise IoT & Wearable Power Consumption
Clemens from Elektor gives our Otii a try using a BBC micro:bit board with a BME280 weather data sensor running Arduino-based MySensors IoT networking software.
Otii in Use: Building a device that can run for years on small batteries – Eivind Holt
As part of the The Things Conference 2020, Eiving Holt held a workshop on utilizing new possibilities that challenge how to build devices that can run for as long as possible without changing energy source.
Otii in Use: trigBoard v8 Sneak Peak – The Ultimate Low Power IoT platform – based on ESP32
In his latest video, Kevin Darrah dropped a sneak peak of his newest development – the trigBoard v8. Together with Otii Arc it will allow you to design for “crazy long battery life” – to put it in his words.
Otii in Use: Raspberry Pi Zero W power analysis
Australian youtuber Ingmar M takes a first look at the Otii Application and how Otii functions as power analyzer. As an example, Ingmar uses the Raspberry Pi Zero W.