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Consumption charge on electricity is one of the issues faced by dormitories, room for rent, apartment and the like. Ideally, tenants must only pay what they have used for a specific period of time, but inevitably sometimes, they pay beyond their actual use simply because of unavailability of a meter or machine that could measure their actual use individually. Due to this practice and the current scheme...
Smart metering is one of the main objectives for the EU member states to ensure the benefit of consumers on the long term. Due to its functionality, smart meters have a wide applicability in: power quality monitoring, energy savings, data awareness and fraud detection. With long-term cost benefits of the smart meters, it is expected that 72% of European consumers will have a smart meter for electricity...
This contribution shows how rationalized energy consumption can be achieved using user-oriented mobile application. It is undoubtable that energy efficiency improvement is one of the most important targets to be achieved on every society as a whole and in power system in particular. With the advent of smart grids, residential end users are expected to shift from their passive role as consumers of...
Emerging fog and mobile edge computing paradigms will create distributed pervasive virtualization environments, where computing, storage, and networking resources will be deployed at the network boundary in a capillary way. To effectively tackle the large dynamic fluctuations in workload engendered by user-centric services, effective energy management schemes must be in place to modulate power consumption...
Estimations show that the worldwide carbon footprint produced by communication networks is 2percent in 2007 and is expected to grow to 4 percent by 2020. Choosing effective green computing hardware and software resources can reduce carbon footprint, save money and improve the reuse cycle. There are many studies conducted globally to motivate people to monitor energy consumption by computing resources...
The energy consumption in residential has been increased over the past years. Many researches to conserve electrical consumption have been presented. Providing residents with information on their energy consumption has become a feasible option to promote energy saving in residential sector. In this Paper, the electrical energy monitoring systems are designed based on a non-intrusive sensors, Bluetooth...
Energy consumption in data centres accounts for a significant proportion of national energy usage in many countries. One approach for reducing energy consumption is to improve the server usage efficiency via workload consolidation. However, there are two primary reasons why this is not done to a large extent. The first reason is that greater consolidation could result in violations of Service Level...
New flexible network environments emerged in the last years, such as the Software-Defined Networks, the Network Function Virtualization and the various network slicing technologies. Their main goal is to satisfy and to flexibly cope with the changing requirements of both users and service / infrastructure providers with respect to the constraints of physical resources, the frequently changing network...
This paper shows an implementation of a smart office energy management system that use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons, smart plugs, and a mobile app, which provides the location-aware energy-saving service without user intervention. Moreover, this paper provides a reasonable realtime energy-saving estimation method by which more effective feedback for motivation can be conveyed to the occupant...
According to analysis by Gartner, Inc., cloud computing is one of the top 10 strategic technology for most organizations in 2015. Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the organization in the next three years. Even though virtualization can reduce the cost of hardware equipment, but it still faces with two problems: energy consumption and the waste...
A real-time energy monitoring system for grid-tied Photovoltaic (PV) installations was developed and deployed in a household located at Barangka, Marikina. The system consists of a BeagleBone Black which serves as the device to processes the measured data from the two power analyzers and the DC sensor. It also features a Mobile and Web-based monitor and analytics platform for end user utilization,...
The energy consumption in residential has been increasing over the past years. Many researches about energy saving which uses information and communication technology have been presented to conserve electrical consumption. Providing residents with information on their energy consumption has become a feasible option to promote energy saving in residential sector. In this paper, a home energy monitoring...
This paper proposes a context-aware energy-saving efforts estimation method that is based on Bluetooth Low Energy beacons (BLE), PC agent, and mobile app. It is important to be properly rewarded for the individual effort to reduce energy consumption, particularly in the office environment. Hence, the intelligent method that makes it possible to perceive and differentiate the energy-saving efforts...
Optimizing the total power consumption within a data center is an NP-hard problem. Project nano data center was started with the promise of reducing power and cooling cost. This paper is focused on reducing the total power consumption within a nano data center by introducing power-aware server selection. We studied effects of several attributes such as power consumption of servers, size of request,...
Apache Cassandra is an open-source cloud storage system that offers multiple types of operation-level consistency including eventual consistency with multiple levels of guarantees and strong consistency. It is being used by many data-center applications (e.g., Facebook and App Scale). Most existing research efforts have been dedicated to exploring trade-offs such as: consistency vs. Performance, consistency...
This research paper focuses on reengineering and optimization of energy consumption and other costs for large IT infrastructures, with support from EA software which is based on advanced use of IT Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and powerful visualization solutions. Use of KPIs is crucial in achieving energy efficient, green IT, implementing these metrics allows the enterprise to determine areas...
Power delivery systems are composed of generation, transmission and distribution system networks, loads, control and management systems. In the effort of providing a clean electric power to the consumer not only the energy sources need to be reformed but also all the above components have to be considered simultaneously using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to reduce cost, save energy,...
Energy efficiency of networking equipment has become an important factor for private consumers as well as business customers in the recent years. This trend is driven by two factors: the proliferation of new mobile devices as well as energy prices as cost driver. Battery capacity as well as dynamic distribution of workloads adapted to energy costs are an active field of research. This demo contributes...
One of the concepts most currently emerging, in the world of information technology is Cloud Computing. While it provides many advanced features, there are still some shortcomings, such as the exorbitant operational cost. It is indeed at the center of several fields of research. One of them is the energy, under its different forms. The management of energy consumption in the world of Cloud is the...
Monitoring energy consumption of servers is a major need in data centers for energy management. Presently, most data centers use smart Power Distribution Unit (PDU) to supply energy to their servers and at the same time to monitor the servers' energy consumption. However, these PDUs are costly since these are not manufactured in the Philippines and have to be procured overseas. Hence, this project...
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