The TREND Meter: Monitoring the Energy Consumption of Networked Devices

In this paper the authors detail the TREND meter, a tool for monitoring the power and the utilization of networked devices. Their solution is based on standard measurements and data export methods. The TREND meter provides graphed energy consumption and load information of each measured device. After detailing the TREND meter architecture, the authors reported the main results that they had obtained by collecting measurements from a variety of devices. Their solution represents the starting point towards a more complex tool able to monitor a network infrastructure and to trigger energy saving techniques when traffic conditions change. The TREND Meter: Monitoring the Energy Consumption of Networked Devices Luca Chiaraviglio, DIET Department, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy Roberto Bruschi, Inter-university Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Genoa, Italy Antonio Cianfrani, DIET Department, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy Olga Maria Jaramillo Ortiz, DITEN, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy George Koutitas, School of Science and Technology, International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki Moudania, Greece