I am trying to simulate a battery for my virtual Wireless Sensor Network application - developed in C#.

Each node has a set of components, e.g. battery, antenna, etc. Now, assuming I provide each node a 1.5 volt alkaline battery, with a rating of 1800 mAh, how can I apply the Rakhmatov-Vrudhella model to this? It takes a list of load at respective intervals and gives me the current discharge.

To get the residual energy I subtract the value of discharge from ALPHA - a hard-coded value of 35220.

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