“…Some authors additionally took the passive hardware components required for proper functioning into their considerations [72,91]. Surprisingly, the majority of nodes found use linear voltage regulators [76,78,79,[82][83][84]87,88,94] or even no regulation at all [72,73,75,80,86,[91][92][93] instead of low-power DC/DC converters [54,74,77,81,85]. Especially if the battery is directly connected to the hardware components' supply rail unintended effects (including soft faults) can easily happen at the end of the battery life due to a (passive) undervolting of the components ( [7,64]).…”