{"title":"PowerPi: Measuring and modeling the power consumption of the Raspberry Pi","authors":"F. Kaup, P. Gottschling, D. Hausheer","doi":"10.1109/LCN.2014.6925777","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"An increasing number of households is connected to the Internet via DSL or cable, for which home gateways are required. The optimization of these - caused by their large number - is a promising area for energy efficiency improvements. Since no power models for home gateways are currently available, the optimization of their power state is not possible. This paper presents PowerPi, a power consumption model for the Raspberry Pi which is used as a substitute to conventional home gateways to derive the impact of typical hardware components on the energy consumption. The different power states of the platform are measured and a power model is derived, allowing to estimate the power consumption based on CPU and network utilization only. The proposed power model estimates the power consumption resulting in a RMSE of less than 3.3%, which is slightly larger than the maximum error of the measurements of 2.5%.","PeriodicalId":143262,"journal":{"name":"39th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"96","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"39th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2014.6925777","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
An increasing number of households is connected to the Internet via DSL or cable, for which home gateways are required. The optimization of these - caused by their large number - is a promising area for energy efficiency improvements. Since no power models for home gateways are currently available, the optimization of their power state is not possible. This paper presents PowerPi, a power consumption model for the Raspberry Pi which is used as a substitute to conventional home gateways to derive the impact of typical hardware components on the energy consumption. The different power states of the platform are measured and a power model is derived, allowing to estimate the power consumption based on CPU and network utilization only. The proposed power model estimates the power consumption resulting in a RMSE of less than 3.3%, which is slightly larger than the maximum error of the measurements of 2.5%.