The Journey so far
I have to admit that it's become a bit of an obsession to try and get this sensor smaller and to use less power at each revision. well I've just finished version 5 which has definitely got the consumption down to a really low level, 3.9uA at its lowest.
The trigger circuitry combines an edge triggered Monostable circuit from two XOR gates and a single OR gate latch circuit, this latch is triggered either by a pulse from the Monostable or the press of a button which sets the latch.
Once the latch has been set it can then be reset by a LOW signal from the ESP12 when the code has finished running on the ESP12, I used GPIO16 as it is held high during boot.
Schematic
Using the circuit above the quiescent current of the whole device when there is no magnet next to the reed switch, i.e. door open is 3.90uA and if you were using it as a WiFi connected button then that would be the Quiescent drain, if used as a door/Window sensor then when the magnet is next to the reed switch the quiescent is slightly higher at 5.4uA due to R1 drawing current when the reed switch is closed.
Battery Life
Actual Current consumption
Using a Nordic Power Profiler Kit II I made some current measurements of the device in the different states: -
Using an online battery lifetime calculator I found here I calculated these battery times based on a usage of 10 activations per day: -
As you can see the worst consumption will give a battery life of more than 7 years! although this will only be an esitmate and in "real life" I assume there will be other factors that may impact on the battery life but only time will tell but I think you would have a good chance of getting a few years out of a relatively small cell.
The files are available on my Github page
