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Energy & cost considerations for single board computers usage in citizen science scenarios

Abstract:

The rich availability of single board computers as an expansion of the traditional embedded system provides a low cost, easily managed, execution ready and scalable entry-level infrastructure, resulting in a new computing paradigm termed as Fog Computing. Simultaneously, the current expansion of Citizen Science initiatives along with the generalization of IOT projects precludes the need for individually managed, low complexity data processing systems, generating a new user-oriented ecosystem that has come to be defined as the Edge Cloud. In this document the authors will briefly study the adequacy of the current user-grade SBC hardware offerings to cover the needs set by the Citizen Science paradigm, starting by studying current Citizen Science projects in order to define the aforementioned set of specific requirements, and subsequently analyzing the hardware selection and provisioning process given the current non-enterprise user-grade supply for SBC computers, taking special consideration to power usage and total cost of ownership factors from a green computing perspective.