JISC

Overview

The overall aim of PAWS is to develop a flexible desktop power management solution suitable for use in HE. PAWS will build on initiatives by JISC, other universities, and a pilot project involving the power management of student workstation rooms at Aberystwyth University. Wider deployment will mean overcoming the challenges of a mixed ICT environment and differing user requirements. Although default power management settings will be applied, staff will have the means to use a web page to control the power management of their own PC.

Aims & Objectives

• To produce a working flexible solution for remote administrator management of public PCs and user management of staff PCs in open source code which can be deployed as a service at Aberystwyth University and also to deploy the solution in at least one service and one academic department at the university.
• Additionally, to deploy the solution at a minimum of one other H.E. institution in Wales.
• To produce open-source code which is deployable at other institutions, and complete solution documentation and evaluation documents.

Project Methodology

A Project Manager / developer will lead the development of open source code (in java) using flexible development methods. He will also be responsible for additional java coding and solution development and testing. Roll-out of the solution will be iterative and incremental. A project Advisor will assist with the development of accessible documentation. A network manager will assist with any networking issues encountered (which will be fully documented). An Estates officer will assist with the measurement of energy consumption and CO2 emissions reduction. The project will be overseen by a project director.

Anticipated Output & Outcomes

• Project Plan
• Project blog/web site
• High level design description
• Open source java-code, fully commented
• Test and implementation documentation and data
• Installation Guide
• User manual
• Final Report

Technology / Standards used

• Java language code
• Industry quality standards (using Eclipse, subversion and javadoc)
• GNU (or similar) open-source public license
• Wake-on-LAN (WOL)