Profiling Energy Efficiency and Data Communications for Mobile Internet of Things

Table 1

Indicators of energy consumption in EEaaS.

Indicator types	Definitions	Example resources
Key energy indicators (KEIs)	Primary and key resources in system	CPU and memory
Secondary KEI (SKEI)	Not frequently used resources but important	GPS and Bluetooth
Relative KEI (RKEI)	Active only when certain applications are running	Camera and activity sensors
Potential cause indicator (PCI)	Learned by the orchestrator over time