A DIY power monitor to compare mobile energy consumption in situ

  • Authors:
  • Paul Holleis;Marko Luther;Gregor Broll;Bertrand Souville

  • Affiliations:
  • DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany;DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany;DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany;DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Many current smartphones need to be recharged every day despite only average usage. This problem is intensified when phones need to track their location on a continuous basis. We provide a yet unavailable platform for accurately measuring the energy consumption of different hardware/software solutions comparing up to three variants in a mobile setting. We show that the accuracy of our system is similar to a fixed, commercial system but is especially useful to evaluate and optimize technology and algorithms that require the phone to be used on the go.