Arduino Based Energy Consumption Measurement and Monitoring in Passive Optical Network

<p><span>This research proposes an enhanced method for monitoring of energy consumption in passive optical network (PON). The established technology will help the research community design models for the synthesis of energyefficient protocols and algorithms for the PON network. There are several limitations to the availability of scalable and economical methods for monitoring and measuring energy consumption in a PON network for research purposes. Thus, the purpose of this work is to offer a practical/new technique for measuring and monitoring energy usage in the optical access network domain. A real-time power consumption and monitoring device with a high sampling rate of up to 10,000 voltage/current samples per second was developed. The product is used to assess the energy consumption of optical network units (ONU) for PON. The developed system based on Arduino Uno helped to create a more realistic model that can capture the relationship between varied traffic patterns and an ONU’s power usage. The device’s results are evaluated in a lab test with a Tektronix energy consumption meter.</span> </p>