Inspiration
In the context of environmental and technological sustainability, we noticed that wifi routers are an always on, constant draw of power. We felt that we could address this issue by limiting wifi routers to what is only required and necessary - by dynamically altering the range/transmission power of the wifi router to the minimum required, as well as turning off routers when no users are connected.
The project was built by turning a Raspberry Pi into a wifi router. We ran into a lot of issues with getting the network set up, achieving routing, and getting the necessary signal strength data from the router, but eventually achieved our objectives through troubleshooting. As well, we ran into an issue with altering transmission power, as changing it on a Raspberry Pi violates U.S. law, however we believe in the future we can find a proper implementation.
We are very proud that we were able to dynamically calculate the necessary signal strength, and also build a strong user GUI that allows individuals much more fine-tuned control of their wifi network. With our energy saving calculations, we believe that RouteLess could save over 500,000 barrels of oil yearly on wifi router calculations, a metric that we are immensely happy about.
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