joshbax88

I'm a computer science student and I'm planning for my senior project next year.
I've proposed to do a power consumption meter application for Network Administrators. It's supposedly gonna gather power consumption information from the server and from the workstations within the local network.
I wanna do this kind of project because my university prefers projects to be somehow beneficial to the community and environment, and this tool will somehow help network administrators to keep track of their energy consumption and aid them in being more cost-efficient, not to mention environment-friendly, when it comes to networking.

The only programming language I know well is Java. But so far I dunno how I'm gonna do this project.
The only idea I have is that I have to be able to access hardware information, and also be able to access it over a network protocol. That way, I guess i can estimate power consumption from each of the hardware unit models used in the network.

Do you guys have any more ideas on how this project can be done?
Thanks in advance.

Ooble

I have a feeling you'll need to create a device that does this, rather than just a software package. No doubt that's already been done, as it's actually fairly simple IIRC, but hooking one of those up to the network and letting people see real-time graphs and stats, etc. through your software would be pretty cool.

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