Abstract—
Battery technology did not advance rapidly enough
to keep pace with the growing energy demands of todays portable
electronics. Leading this critical need for energy are smartphone
devices which are being deployed and adopted at an increasing
rate. Developing sound energy management techniques for these
devices requires a good understanding of where and how batteryenergy
is being utilized. Developing power consumption models
is therefore crucial for the understanding of these devices and
for developing energy-efficient software to run on them. In this
work, we attempt to develop a power model for an Andorid-based
smartphone that uses a dual core processor. The model draws
on users activity and is implemented using regression techniques
where model predictors are tightly related to these activities.
Index Terms—smartphone, power consumption, battery energy