BatteryLab: A collaborative platform for power monitoring https://batterylab.dev
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Accepted version
OA Location
Author(s)
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Advances in cloud computing have simplified the way that both software development and testing are performed. This is not true for battery testing for which state of the art test-beds simply consist of one phone attached to a power meter. These test-beds have limited resources, access, and are overall hard to maintain; for these reasons, they often sit idle with no experiment to run. In this paper, we propose to share existing battery testbeds and transform them into vantage points of BatteryLab, a power monitoring platform offering heterogeneous devices and testing conditions. We have achieved this vision with a combination of hardware and software which allow to augment existing battery test-beds with remote capabilities. BatteryLab currently counts three vantage points, one in Europe and two in the US, hosting three Android devices and one iPhone 7. We benchmark BatteryLab with respect to the accuracy of its battery readings, system performance, and platform heterogeneity. Next, we demonstrate how measurements can be run atop of BatteryLab by developing the “Web Power Monitor” (WPM), a tool which can measure website power consumption at scale. We released WPM and used it to report on the energy consumption of Alexa’s top 1,000 websites across 3 locations and 4 devices (both Android and iOS).
Editor(s)
Hohlfeld, O
Moura, G
Pelsser, C
Date Issued
2022-03-22
Date Acceptance
2022-03-01
Citation
Passive and Active Measurement (PAM 2022), 2022, 13210, pp.97-121
ISBN
978-3-030-98784-8
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Start Page
97
End Page
121
Journal / Book Title
Passive and Active Measurement (PAM 2022)
Volume
13210
Copyright Statement
© 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000787796800005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
Grant Number
EP/N028260/2
Source
23rd Annual International Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) Conference
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Computer Science, Information Systems
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Telecommunications
Computer Science
Battery
Test-bed
Performance
Android
iOS
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2022-03-28
Finish Date
2022-03-30
Coverage Spatial
Virtual
Date Publish Online
2022-03-22