Experimental platform for power measurements of computer systems

Author

Melo, T.R. ; Luiz, Saulo O. D. ; Silva, J.J. ; Neves, Breno H. M.

Author_Institution

Center of Electr. Eng. & Inf., Fed. Univ. of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

7-10 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

424

Lastpage

428

Abstract

This work presents the implementation of an experimental platform for monitoring the power consumption of mobile devices, such as smartphones, notebooks and netbooks. In this platform, a robust electrical circuit is connected to a data acquisition module for power measurements via a virtual instrumentation implemented in the LabVIEW software. The computer system state was measured by means of operating system performance counters. Finally, the power measurements were synchronized with the computer system state by means of MatLab. The implemented experimental platform has provided valuable information for the analysis of power management techniques for mobile devices.

Keywords

data acquisition; mathematics computing; mobile computing; mobile handsets; power aware computing; power measurement; virtual instrumentation; LabVIEW software; MatLab; computer system power measurements; computer system state; data acquisition module; mobile device power consumption monitoring; mobile device power management techniques; operating system performance counters; power measurements; robust electrical circuit; virtual instrumentation; Computers; Current measurement; Mobile handsets; Power demand; Power measurement; Sensors; Voltage measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics ??? Berlin (ICCE-Berlin), 2014 IEEE Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Berlin

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2014.7034248

Filename

7034248