Household power consumption pattern modeling through a single power sensor

Modeling Hard-Disk Power Consumption

Excessive power consumption is a major barrier to the market acceptance of hard disks in mobile electronic devices. Studying and reducing power consumption, however, often involves running timeintensive disk traces on real hardware with specialized power-monitoring equipment. This paper presents Dempsey, a disk simulation environment that includes accurate modeling of disk power consumption. It...

Minimizing Power Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks

Power consumption among sensors has always and will continue to be an issue among developers and deployers of such devices. Wireless sensor networks are even more power draining because they utilize a wireless radio communications device which requires more power than any other items on the sensor. This paper discusses some of the previous schemes to reduce power consumption through planning or...

Power consumption Assessment in Wireless Sensor Networks

Power Consumption Prediction in Wireless Sensor Networks

The greatest current challenge in wireless sensor networks consists in building a completely adaptive network without fixed infrastructure and with the smallest energy resources. Applications built upon such networks are various: from telemetry to medical follow-up and from intrusion detection to infrastructures maintenance. Nevertheless, their design requires a large effort to guarantee quasi ...

Pattern Recognition of the Household Water Consumption through Signal Analysis

This paper presents the initial results of a research project that aims to develop a method for losses/leakage detection and household water consumption characterization through the detailed patterns analysis of signals generated by water meters. The Department of Civil Engineering (University of Coimbra) supports the research as part of a PhD Project. An experimental facility is used for signa...