Geb and I did some calculations to see how many hours of messages we could get from the flash memory on the motes.
The flash memory can hold 1024 kilobytes of memory. Each message is 6 bytes.
[ 1024 kilobytes * 1000 (bytes/kilobyte) ] / 6 bytes gives approximately 170,000 messages.
Using a previous experiment, we calculated that there are approximately .5 messages per second.
[ 170000 messages / (.5 messages/second) ] / 3600 (seconds/hour) gives us a grand total of 94 hours of storage, which amounts to almost four days of storage per mote.
We also learned that the messages will go up to 65536 seconds in mote time and then the mote time will reset.