Scope:
Where do you come into play? During this hands-on internship, you will develop a practical application on microcontrollers running RTOS-es such as FreeRTOS or Zephyr and evaluate the power reduction modes.
● ESP32 running ESP-IDF (FreeRTOS)
● Nordic running
The application will be an existing application and will be modified to lower the power consumption as much as possible. How low can we go with:
● Active MQTT session over Ethernet/WiFi
● Retain state and security context at all times
● measured performance equivalence and/or motivation / work-around for performance loss.

As outcome we expect the following:
● Have an understanding ofthe impact to activate low power features in the idle task of an RTOS.
● Have an understanding on hardware requirements to optimize this further
● Have numbers that express the impact on energy consumption using these techniques
● Have an understanding on how to estimate the required effort to reach specific power consumption restrictions
● Have an understanding on which power consumption criteria require specific hardware.
● Have a re-evaluation of the same application used with a newer SDK

● You have a keen interest in embedded digital applications.
● You have knowledge of C/C++
● You are eager to go to the bottom of things
● You have experience with mcu's and device drivers