Cloudy Computing: Leveraging Weather Forecasts in Energy Harvesting Sensor
Systems
Abstract
To sustain perpetual operation, systems that harvest environmental energy must carefully regulate their
usage to satisfy their demand. Regulating energy usage is challenging if a system's demands are not
elastic and its hardware components are not energy-proportional, since it cannot precisely scale its
usage to match its supply. Instead, the system must choose when to satisfy its energy demands based
on its current energy reserves and predictions of its future energy supply. In this paper, we explore the
use of weather forecasts to improve a system's ability to satisfy demand by improving its predictions.
We analyze weather forecast, observational, and energy harvesting data to formulate a model that
translates a weather forecast to a wind or solar energy harvesting prediction, and quantify its accuracy.
We evaluate our model for both energy sources in the context of two different energy harvesting sensor
systems with inelastic demands: a sensor testbed that leases sensors to external users and a
lexicographically fair sensor network that maintains steady node sensing rates. We show that using
weather forecasts in both wind- and solar-powered sensor systems increases each system's ability to
satisfy its demands compared with existing prediction strategies.
Existing system
To sustain perpetual operation, systems that harvest environmental energy must carefully regulate their
usage to satisfy their demand. Regulating energy usage is challenging if a system's demands are not
elastic and its hardware components are not energy-proportional, since it cannot precisely scale its
usage to match its supply. Instead, the system must choose when to satisfy its energy demands based
on its current energy reserves and predictions of its future energy supply.
Proposed system
we explore the use of weather forecasts to improve a system's ability to satisfy demand by improving its
predictions. We analyze weather forecast, observational, and energy harvesting data to formulate a
model that translates a weather forecast to a wind or solar energy harvesting prediction, and quantify
its accuracy. We evaluate our model for both energy sources in the context of two different energy
harvesting sensor systems with inelastic demands: a sensor testbed that leases sensors to external users
and a lexicographically fair sensor network that maintains steady node sensing rates. We show that
using weather forecasts in both wind- and solar-powered sensor systems increases each system's ability
to satisfy its demands compared with existing prediction strategies.
Further Details Contact: A Vinay 9030333433, 08772261612
Email: takeoffstudentprojects@gmail.com | www.takeoffprojects.com
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION:HARDWARE CONFIGURATION: Processor
 Speed
-
Pentium –IV
1.1 Ghz
 RAM
-
256 MB(min)
 Hard Disk
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20 GB
 Key Board
-
Standard Windows Keyboard
 Mouse
-
 Monitor
Two or Three Button Mouse
-
SVGA
SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:-
 Operating System
: Windows XP
 Programming Language
: JAVA
 Java Version
: JDK 1.6 & above.
Further Details Contact: A Vinay 9030333433, 08772261612
Email: takeoffstudentprojects@gmail.com | www.takeoffprojects.com