Proposal of Sensor Data Gathering with Single Board Computer

In Japan, the generation of electricity emits 20% of the total greenhouse gases. The use of home electronics, besides consuming power, also accounts for 46% of the green-house gas emissions. We therefore need to reduce our power consumption at home to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, without sacrificing home comforts such as watching television and using air conditioners and various other electronic devices. We propose a sensor data gathering system using a single board computer for home energy management systems. This sensor system should be capable of handling 100 sensor data per second. Since a single board computer has low power consumption and low performance, it is used as the sensor data gathering server. Based on our benchmark evaluation, a single board computer can receive 5000 sensor data per second. Since the basic requirement is only 100 sensor data per second, this single board computer has adequate performance to act as an aggregated server for 50 such sensor data gathering systems.