Flotta - Reduce energy consumption

The project idea aims to reduce power consumption on Flotta-device agents on small factor edge devices at several levels. OS toolings would be implemented to get data about the energy consumption at the CPU level of the device agent using a Custom Kepler monitoring system and a power meter. After the confirmation of the data, these parameters would be passed to the control plane via metrics using Prometheus as Internal Prometheus TSDB is already used by the flotta-device agent, Required research on variation in energy consumption and performance with the number of workloads and resources allocated to them would be done and the obtained findings is to be summarised in a blogpost. The research part would be helpful for the development of better ideas for workload allocation and containers for Flotta, and IoT based container workload projects in general. Two energy profiles would be developed namely Flotta-PowerSaving Mode and Flotta-UltraPowerSaving Mode which would aim to turn - off specific kernel modules and operations which are not feasible and are unnecessary for running container workloads at low energy, The data from the research would be integrated with these for determining the ranges in which it would operate.