ESP32-H2/ESP32-C6 indicative power consumption for OpenThread/802.15.4
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 11:57 pm
Hi folks,
I was wondering if Espressif has any indicative numbers of average power consumption for ESP32-H2 or ESP32-C6 nodes in an OpenThread network, please?
In particular I'm wondering what the trade-offs are for configuring a device as Full End Node vs Minimal End Node vs Sleepy End Node.
I see there are ESP-IDF examples for Sleepy End Node but it'd save a lot of testing if there's already any info on what kind of power consumption is achievable on a mostly quiet network with the different node types.
(I've also seen the current measurements in the datasheets, but those are either for 100% radio duty cycle or 0% radio duty cycle so harder to extrapolate what a reasonable real-world consumption would be.)
I was wondering if Espressif has any indicative numbers of average power consumption for ESP32-H2 or ESP32-C6 nodes in an OpenThread network, please?
In particular I'm wondering what the trade-offs are for configuring a device as Full End Node vs Minimal End Node vs Sleepy End Node.
I see there are ESP-IDF examples for Sleepy End Node but it'd save a lot of testing if there's already any info on what kind of power consumption is achievable on a mostly quiet network with the different node types.
(I've also seen the current measurements in the datasheets, but those are either for 100% radio duty cycle or 0% radio duty cycle so harder to extrapolate what a reasonable real-world consumption would be.)