Want a powernet wireless meter
Both the hardware and software that go into PowerNet is open-source and we want to share them.
Please email Maria (marikaz[at]cs[dot]stanford[dot]edu to get more info.
Board schematics and software will be available soon.
Mission
Current power conservation research and development is hampered by a lack of comprehensive power usage data. We are designing and deploying a building-scale sensor network for power measurement and analysis. The network consists of custom high fidelity wireless sensors, commercial off-the-shelf wired sensors, and utilization monitors that track CPU and network traffic.
We monitor the power consumption of a full spectrum of electronics, part of the Gates computing infrastructure. These include end-user machines, back-end 1U servers and deskops, networking switches, various size monitors, and wireless access points.
Correlation between system use and power consumption allows us to identify wasteful hardware and user practices as well as understand how different infrastructure setups affect power efficiency.
Our broader goal is to generate the comprehensive insights that can guide power research across system types and scales (individual system, data center, networking infrastructure, hardware and software).
We are happy to provide data traces to interested parties.