Wearable wireless sensor devices, which are implemented by deploying sensor nodes on objects, are widely utilized in a broad field of applica-tions, especially in the healthcare system for improving the quality of life or monitoring different types of physical data from the observed objects. The aim of this study is to design an in-home, small-size and long-term wearable fall detection system in wireless network by using barometric pressure sensing for elderly or patient who needs healthcare monitoring. This threshold-based fall detection system is to measure the altitude of different positions on the human body, and detect the fall event from that altitude information. As a surveillance system, it would trigger an alert when the fall event occurs so that to protect people from the potential life risk by immediate rescue and treatment. After all the performances evaluation, the measurement result shows that standing, sitting and fall state was detected with 100% accuracy and lying on bed state was detected with 93.3% accuracy by using this wireless fall detection system. Furthermore, this system with low power consumption on battery-node can operate continuously up to 150 days.

Les systèmes multiprocesseurs sur puce (MPSoC)s sont fortement émergent comme principaux composants dans les systèmes embarqués à hautes performances. La principale complexité dans la conception et l’implémentation des MPSoC est la communication entre les cœurs. Les réseaux sur puce (NoC) sont considérés comme la solution pour cet effet. ITRS prédit que des centaines de cœurs seront utilisées dans la génération future de système sur puce (SoC), ce qui va donc augmenter les coûts de l’évolutivité, de bande passante et de l’implémentation des réseaux sur puce (NoC)s. Ces problèmes sont présents dans diverses tendances technologiques dans le domaine des semiconducteurs et de la photonique. Cette thèse préconise l'utilisation de la synthèse NoC comme l'approche la plus appropriée pour exploiter ces tendances technologiques et rattraper les exigences des applications. A partir de plusieurs méthodologies de conception basées sur la technologie FPGA et des techniques d'estimation basse énergie (HLS) pour plusieurs IPs, nous proposons une implémentation ASIC basée sur la technologie 3D Tezzaron. Multi-FPGA technologie est utilisée pour valider la conception MPSoC avec 64 processeurs Butterfly NoC. La synthèse NoC est basée sur le regroupement de maîtres et d’esclaves générant des architectures asymétriques avec un soutien approprié pour les demandes très haut débit par optique NoC (ONoC), tandis que les demandes de bande passante inférieure sont traitées par électronique NoC. Une programmation linéaire est proposée comme une solution pour la synthèse NoC. / Multiprocessor systems on chip (MPSoC)s are strongly emerging as main components in high performance embedded systems. Several challenges can be determined in MPSoC design like the challenge which comes from interconnect infrastructure. Network-on-Chip (NOC) with multiple constraints to be satisfied is a promising solution for these challenges. ITRS predicts that hundreds of cores will be used in future generation system on chip (SoC) and thus raises the issue of scalability, bandwidth and implementation costs for NoCs. These issues are raised within the various technological trends in semiconductors and photonics. This PhD thesis advocates the use of NoC synthesis as the most appropriate approach to exploit these technological trends catch up with the applications requirements. Starting with several design methodologies based on FPGA technology and low power estimation techniques (HLS) for several IPs, we propose an ASIC implementation based on 3D Tezzaron technology. Multi-FPGA technology is used to validate MPSoC design with up to 64 processors with Butterfly NoC. NoC synthesis is based on a clustering of masters and slaves generating asymmetric architectures with appropriate support for very high bandwidth requests through Optical NoC (ONoC) while lower bandwidth requests are processed by electronic NoC. A linear programming is proposed as a solution to the NoC synthesis.

La multiplication des plate-formes embarquées disponibles sur le marché rend de plus en plus complexe le choix d’une plate-forme pour un produit. L’arrivée des architectures multi-processeurs augmente encore plus ce phénomène. Dans le contexte industriel actuel, il est nécessaire de disposer d’une méthodologie et des outils associés permettant d’évaluer rapidement ces plate-formes et celles qui apparaitront dans le futur sur le marché afin de faire des premiers choix tôt dans le cycle de conception des produits. Précédemment, il était nécessaire d’attendre l’arrivée sur le marché des plate-formes de test afin d’exécuter sur ces plate-formes des benchmarks et des applications afin d’évaluer leur performance et leur consommation. Nous proposons ici une méthodologie et les outils associés permettant de modéliser un système (logiciel et matériel) puis d’estimer ses performances et sa consommation d’énergie. Notre méthodologie s’appuie sur des modèles simples à mettre en œuvre utilisant uniquement des informations présentes dans les documents techniques des constructeurs. Autre avantage de notre approche, la simulation réalisée s’appuie sur du code exécutable généré automatiquement afin de s’exécuter en natif sur un ordinateur. Cela permet une exécution rapide des scénarios de test et offre la possibilité de faire de l’exploration d’architectures. Nous avons procédé à diverses validations en utilisant des applications variées (décodeur H.264, application radio, benchmarks classiques, ...) et en comparant les performances et la consommation estimée avec l’équivalent sur des plate-formes réelles (OMAP3/4, i.MX6, QorIQ, ...). Cela a permis d’évaluer l’erreur d’estimation de FORECAST (l’outil développé lors de cette thèse) et ainsi de s’assurer que le taux d’erreur reste dans des bornes admissibles c’est-à-dire inferieures à 20%. Nous avons d’un autre côté comparé notre approche avec celles développées dans deux autres projets OpenPEOPLE (ANR) et COMCAS (Catrene) afin de s’assurer que le rapport effort/précision de notre approche est intéressant. / The number of available commercial platforms is constantly increasing. The choice of an architecture that fit as much as possible the requirements is therefore more and more complex. This is even more real with the availability of recent multiprocessors architectures. As a consequence, methodologies with their associated tools are required in order to quickly evaluate future platforms, so that choices can be made early in the design flow. So far, evaluating either the performance or the power consumption of a dedicated platform was performed through executing benchmarks and applications on this platform. In this thesis, a new methodology with its associated tools, called FORECAST, is proposed to model both the hardware and software of a system, and then to estimate its performance and its power consumption. Our methodology is based on efficient models, easy to characterize using only information provided by constructor datasheets. Moreover, our approach is able to automatically generate an executable code of the system that can be simulated on the host machine. This simulation allows a rapid execution of multiple test cases. Our approach is therefore well adapted for performing architecture exploration. A lot of experimentations have been performed using our tool FORECAST for different applications (H.264 video decoder, radio application, benchmarks. . .) and different hardware platforms. Results obtained both in performance and in power consumption have then been compared with existing platforms (OMAP3, OMAP4, i.MX6, QorIQ. . .), but also with two collaborative projects, OpenPeple (ANR) and COMCAS (Catrene), dealing also with performance and power estimations. The comparison demonstrates the accuracy of our approach as the estimation is always below a 20% error margin. These experimentations have also shown that our methodology provides a very efficient ratio between the modeling effort and the accuracy of the estimations.

Dans le cadre du développement de SoC (Systems-on-Chip) complexes, l'interconnexion des différent IP matériels (Intellectual Property), très distants à l'échelle d'un circuit intégré (typiquement quelques centimètres) et devant s'échanger des volumes de données parfois important, incite, pour des raisons de débit, de latence, de pertes et de consommation, l'adoption d'une méthodologie de conception adéquate pour réaliser des systèmes de plus en plus flexibles. Afin de répondre à ces nouvelles difficultés de conception, de nombreuses recherches ont fait émerger le concept de réseau optique sur puce (Optical Network-on-Chip ou ONoC).Dans cette thèse une étude détaillée d'une nouvelle architecture d'un réseau optique sur puce a été faite. La conception de ce réseau repose sur 2 paradigmes d'interconnexion: concevoir l'architecture dans le cadre d'une puce en 3D et l'empilement en plusieurs niveaux des guides d'onde optique dans la couche réseau optique sur puce. L'élément clef de cette architecture est un microrésonateur à plusieurs niveaux de guide d'onde (Si/SiO2). De ce fait, une étude détaillée sur le comportement optique de ce composant avec des modèles mathématiques et des simulations FEM a été faite dans le but d'optimiser la perte de puissance optique, le nombre des niveaux des guides d'onde empilés et la consommation d'énergie.Après avoir détaillé le fonctionnement de réseau multi-niveaux sur puce proposé "OMNoC", son protocole de routage a été étudié avec le simulateur NS-2, puis optimisé, rédiger et étudier avec C++ et l'outil Parsec Benchmark. Enfin et en tenant compte des études faites sur le comportement optique des guides d'onde et le protocole de routage, une étude desperformances comparatives avec des autres architectures a été élaborée montrant ainsi les avantages et les limites d'une telle méthodologie d'interconnexion. / The developing of complex System on Chip "SoC" interconnecting different cores IP distant in micrometer chip scale, needs important data bandwidth , low latency and the best compromise between optical power loss and crosstalk. According to that, finding new methodology design is necessary to cope to those challenges.Using centric communication becomes the mainly solution to improve communication performance in system on chip and recently many researches are focusing on Optical Network on Chip 'ONoC'.In this thesis, a novel architecture of an optical network on chip is proposed, this architecture is reposed on 2 design paradigms: ONoC based 3D chip and multilevel waveguides based ONoC. The key element of this architecture is the multilevel microresonator (Si/SiO2) which is the optical switch of the network. Optical wave behavior in different geometries have been studied using FEM method in order to find compromise between optical power loss and crosstalk. Operation mode of this ONoC called "OMNoC" is explained, routing protocol is studied using NS-2 simulator too, then optimized and developed using C++ and Benchmark tool. After that and by using FEM results and adopted routing strategy, OMNoC performances are studied and compared with other network architectures proposed in ONoC literature. In conclusion and according to performances analysis and comparisons, OMNoC could be considered as a promising network architecture which offer scalability and give a compromise between optical power loss and crosstalk.

M.Com. (Economics) / The objective of the thesis was to examine the relationship between the grade of ore, physical electricity consumption and working cost in the South African gold mining industry for the period 1965 - 1982. The South African economy is heavily dependent on the gold mining industry, which is a major earner of foreign exchange and a large consumer of labour and agricultural and industrial output. The industry is also important as a source of finance for both the private sector and the Treasury. Curtailment of activity within the industry by closing down the more marginal mines or by shortening the life of the industry' as a whole because of rising costs and/or a hesitant gold price, will harm the South African economy in a number of ways. The industry has no option but to regard the gold price as given. The remaining ore reserves tend to be of a lower grade and/or to be found at greater depth. Controlling the working costs would seem to be almost the only option open to the industry.

Nesta dissertação os conceitos e técnicas relacionadas com a automação e otimização do projeto de um oscilador controlável por tensão para aplicações de rádio frequência são apresentados. O problema de projeto do oscilador foi formulado como um problema de otimização matemática conhecido como programação geométrica. Uma abordagem à aplicação da programação geométrica no projeto de um circuito simples foi feita primeiro. Dessa forma, as vantagens e limitações da metodologia são identificadas e propostas para lidar com esses problemas são revisados. Com uma idéia clara da metodologia, o problema de projeto do oscilador como um programa geométrico é apresentado. Um requerimento importante da aplicação de programação geométrica no projeto de circuitos é a necessidade de contar com modelos dos dispositivos que sejam compatíveis com a forma matemática do problema de otimização. Nesse sentido, neste trabalho se mostra como foram obtidos esses modelos para parâmetros do transistor e de um indutor quadrado simétrico onchip. Finalmente, aplicou-se a metodologia no projeto de um VCO na banda ISM 2.4GHz numa tecnologia CMOS 0.35um padrão de 4 metais, simulações do circuito mostraram uma figura de mérito de 180dBc/Hz com o ruído de fase de -130dBc/Hz a 3MHz de offset da portadora. Finalmente, o layout do protótipo de um VCO foi feito e fabricado. Testes experimentais foram desenvolvidos. Os resultados obtidos mostraram boa correlação com as simulações póslayout do circuito. / In this work the concepts and techniques related to the optimization and automation of the design of a controlled voltage oscillator intended for radio frequency applications are presented. The design problem of the oscillator was cast as a mathematical optimization problem known as geometric programming. As a first approach, the application of geometric programming in the design of a simple circuits was done. Thus, the advantages and limitations of the methodology were first reviewed and strategies to overcome theses problems were also presented. With a better understanding of the methodology, the formulation of the oscillator as a geometric program was presented. One of the most important requirements in the application of geometric programming in circuit design is the needed of device models suitable with the mathematical form of a geometric program. Thus, in this work the techniques used to obtain theses models for transistor and inductor parameters were presented. Using the proposed methodology, a VCO for the 2.4GHz ISM frequency band was designed in a standard 4 metals 0.35um CMOS technology. From simulations results, the VCO achieved a figure of merit of 180 dBc/Hz with a phase noise of -130dBc/Hz at 3MHz of offset frequency. A prototype of a VCO was fabricated and experimental tests were developed. From the obtained results good agreement with post layout simulations were observed.

A mitigação de desastres naturais exige respostas rápidas e confiáveis. No Brasil, a estação de chuvas provoca muitos alagamentos em regiões urbanas e, para monitorar esse fenômeno, foi instalada em São Carlos-SP uma rede de sensores sem fio para acompanhar o nível de água dos rios da cidade. Entretanto, essa rede de sensores está suscetível a falhas que podem comprometer o funcionamento do sistema, e a adoção de mecanismos redundantes e de redes móveis 3G podem acarretar em custos proibitivos à monitoração desses rios, além de não garantirem a operação normal desse monitoramento. Assim, este trabalho apresenta uma solução baseada em veículo aéreo não tripulado (VANT) para reduzir os problemas oriundos das falhas em uma rede de sensores para detectar desastres naturais como enchentes e deslizamentos. Na solução proposta, o VANT pode ser transportado para o sítio do desastre para minimizar os problemas provenientes das falhas (por exemplo, para servir como um roteador ou até mesmo para servir como uma mula de dados e transmitir imagens em tempo real para equipes de resgate). Estudos foram conduzidos em um protótipo real, equipado com o UAV Brain (módulo computacional desenvolvido especificamente para este projeto), para uma análise exploratória do consumo energético do VANT e do rádio transmissor que equipa o VANT. Os resultados mostram que a melhor situação para o rádio comunicador se dá quando o VANT está no ar e com uma antena de maior ganho, e os fatores que mais influenciam no consumo energético do rádio são a altura do VANT e o tipo de antena utilizado. Além disso, tais resultados mostram também a viabilidade desta proposta em redes de sensores sem fio linear e esparsa. / The mitigation of natural disasters requires quick and reliable answers. In Brazil, the rainy season causes many flooding in urban areas and, to monitor this phenomenon, a wireless sensor network to monitor the water level of the citys rivers was installed in São Carlos-SP. However, this sensor network is susceptible to failures that may jeopardize the operation of the system, and the adoption of redundant mechanisms and 3G mobile networks may result in prohibitive costs to the monitoring of these rivers, and does not guarantee the normal operation of monitoring. This work presents an aerial vehicle-based solution unmanned (UAV) to reduce the problems originated from failures in a network of sensors to detect natural disasters such as floods and landslides. In the proposed solution, the UAV can be transported to the disaster site to minimize problems arising from failures (eg, to serve as a router or even to serve as a data mule and transmit images in real time for rescue teams). Studies were conducted in a real prototype, equipped with UAV Brain (computational module developed specifically for this project), for an exploratory analysis of the energy consumption UAV and radio transmitter fitted to the UAV. The results show that the best situation for the radio communicator is when the UAV is in the air and with a higher gain antenna, and the factors that most influence on the radio energy consumption are the height of the UAV and the type of antenna used. Furthermore, these results also show the feasibility of this proposal in linear and sparse wireless sensor networks.

Dans le contexte du développement de systèmes embarqués alliant hautes performances et basse consommation, la recherche de l'efficacité énergétique optimale des processeurs est devenue un défi majeur. Les solutions architecturales se sont positionnées durant les dernières décennies comme d'importantes contributrices à ce challenge. Ces solutions, permettant la gestion du compromis performance de calcul/consommation, se sont dans un premier temps développées pour les circuits mono-processeurs. Elles évoluent aujourd'hui pour s'adapter aux contraintes de circuits MPSoCs de plus en plus complexes et sensibles aux déviations des procédés de fabrication, aux variations de tension et de température. Cette variabilité limite aujourd'hui drastiquement l'efficacité énergétique de chacune des unités de calcul qui composent une architecture MPSoC, car des marges pessimistes de fonctionnement sont généralement prises en compte. De grandes améliorations peuvent être attendues de la diminution de ces marges de fonctionnement en surveillant dynamiquement et localement la variabilité de chaque unité de calcul afin de réajuster ses paramètres de fonctionnement tension/fréquence. Ce travail s'insère dans une solution architecturale bas-coût nommée AVFS, basée sur une optimisation des techniques de gestion locales DVFS, permettant de réduire les marges de conception afin d'améliorer l'efficacité énergétique des MPSoCs, tout en minimisant l'impact de la solution proposée sur la surface de silicium et l'énergie consommée. Le développement d'un système de surveillance des variations locales et dynamiques de la tension et de la température à partir d'un capteur bas coût a été proposé. Une première méthode permet d'estimer conjointement la tension et la température à l'aide de tests statistiques. Une seconde permet d'accélérer l'estimation de la tension. Enfin, une méthode de calibration associée aux deux méthodes précédentes a été développée. Ce système de surveillance a été validé sur une plateforme matérielle afin d'en démontrer le caractère opérationnel. En prenant en compte les estimées de tension et de température, des politiques visant à réajuster dynamiquement les consignes des actionneurs locaux de tension et de fréquence ont été proposées. Finalement, la consommation additionnelle due à l'intégration des éléments constitutifs de l'architecture AVFS a été évaluée et comparée aux réductions de consommation atteignables grâce aux réductions des marges de fonctionnement. Ces résultats ont montré que la solution AVFS permet de réaliser des gains en consommation substantiels par rapport à une solution DVFS classique. / Nowadays, embedded systems requiring high performance and low power, the search for the optimal efficiency of the processors has become a major challenge. Architectural solutions have positioned themselves in recent decades as one of the main contributors to this challenge. These solutions enable the management of the trade-off between performance / power consumption, initially developed for single -processor systems. Today, they evolve to be adapted to the constraints of circuits MPSoCs increasingly complex and sensitive to process, voltage and temperature variations. This PVT variability limits drastically the energy efficiency of each of the processing units of a MPSoC architecture, taking into account pessimistic operating margins. Significant improvements can be expected from the reduction of the operating margins by dynamically monitoring and local variability of each resource and by adjusting its voltage / frequency operating point. This work is part of a low-cost architectural solution called AVFS, based on local DVFS optimization technique, to reduce design margins and improve the energy efficiency of MPSoCs, while minimizing the silicon surface and the energy additional cost. The development of a monitoring system of local and dynamic voltage and temperature variations using a low-cost sensor has been proposed. A first method estimates jointly voltage and temperature using statistical tests. A second one speeds up estimation of the voltage. Finally, a calibration method associated with the two previous methods has been developed. This monitoring system has been validated on a hardware platform to demonstrate its operational nature. Taking into account the estimation of voltage and temperature values, policies to dynamically adjust the set point of the local voltage and frequency actuators have been proposed. Finally, the additional power consumption due to the integration of the components of the architecture AVFS was evaluated and compared with reductions achievable through reductions in operating margins consumption. These results showed that the AVFS solution can achieve substantial power savings compared to conventional DVFS solution.

Nesta dissertação os conceitos e técnicas relacionadas com a automação e otimização do projeto de um oscilador controlável por tensão para aplicações de rádio frequência são apresentados. O problema de projeto do oscilador foi formulado como um problema de otimização matemática conhecido como programação geométrica. Uma abordagem à aplicação da programação geométrica no projeto de um circuito simples foi feita primeiro. Dessa forma, as vantagens e limitações da metodologia são identificadas e propostas para lidar com esses problemas são revisados. Com uma idéia clara da metodologia, o problema de projeto do oscilador como um programa geométrico é apresentado. Um requerimento importante da aplicação de programação geométrica no projeto de circuitos é a necessidade de contar com modelos dos dispositivos que sejam compatíveis com a forma matemática do problema de otimização. Nesse sentido, neste trabalho se mostra como foram obtidos esses modelos para parâmetros do transistor e de um indutor quadrado simétrico onchip. Finalmente, aplicou-se a metodologia no projeto de um VCO na banda ISM 2.4GHz numa tecnologia CMOS 0.35um padrão de 4 metais, simulações do circuito mostraram uma figura de mérito de 180dBc/Hz com o ruído de fase de -130dBc/Hz a 3MHz de offset da portadora. Finalmente, o layout do protótipo de um VCO foi feito e fabricado. Testes experimentais foram desenvolvidos. Os resultados obtidos mostraram boa correlação com as simulações póslayout do circuito. / In this work the concepts and techniques related to the optimization and automation of the design of a controlled voltage oscillator intended for radio frequency applications are presented. The design problem of the oscillator was cast as a mathematical optimization problem known as geometric programming. As a first approach, the application of geometric programming in the design of a simple circuits was done. Thus, the advantages and limitations of the methodology were first reviewed and strategies to overcome theses problems were also presented. With a better understanding of the methodology, the formulation of the oscillator as a geometric program was presented. One of the most important requirements in the application of geometric programming in circuit design is the needed of device models suitable with the mathematical form of a geometric program. Thus, in this work the techniques used to obtain theses models for transistor and inductor parameters were presented. Using the proposed methodology, a VCO for the 2.4GHz ISM frequency band was designed in a standard 4 metals 0.35um CMOS technology. From simulations results, the VCO achieved a figure of merit of 180 dBc/Hz with a phase noise of -130dBc/Hz at 3MHz of offset frequency. A prototype of a VCO was fabricated and experimental tests were developed. From the obtained results good agreement with post layout simulations were observed.

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A pesquisa procura identificar a problemática do consumo de energia elétrica, com suas causas e efeitos, no contexto da crise hidroelétrica brasileira. Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo geral analisar e discutir as principais ações que devem ser tomadas para se obter a redução do consumo de energia elétrica em ambientes competitivos. Para tanto, tem como objetivos específicos: fazer uma revisão na literatura sobre a gestão do consumo de energia e identificar um conjunto de critérios que permitam avaliar a gestão de energia; estudar os modelos relatados na literatura com a indicação de ações que contemplem o uso racional e eficiente da energia elétrica; aplicar no estudo de caso os critérios encontrados na literatura e propor ações de melhoria e gestão eficaz do consumo elétrico ajustado a um Instituto de Pesquisa de uma Autarquia Federal no Rio de Janeiro. Uma revisão da literatura nas bases Scopus e SciELO foi realizada para dar suporte à construção desse modelo. Foi utilizado um questionário para definir e classificar o conjunto de critérios que contribuem para a redução do consumo no modelo utilizado. Um grupo de especialistas foi formado para validar os problemas encontrados e opinar sobre as soluções propostas. O método da pesquisa é indutivo de natureza exploratória e descritiva com abordagem quali-quantitativa. Os resultados da revisão da literatura apontaram para nove critérios relevantes e mostram que é possível alcançar uma redução no consumo de energia a partir do estudo desses critérios e de sua correlação com as variáveis coletadas no estudo de caso. Os resultados obtidos do questionário que foi aplicado junto aos especialistas no estudo de caso excluíram os três critérios menos relevantes, através da aplicação do Diagrama de Pareto. A pesquisa contribui para o desenvolvimento de uma metodologia para avaliação de ações visando o uso racional da energia elétrica. Contribui também para ações de planejamento sustentável que possam auxiliar as tomadas de decisão nos níveis operacional e gerencial num contexto de crise hidroelétrica. / The energy crisis has gained considerable visibility in society, in private companies and also in public agencies, provoking actions necessary to reduce water and electricity consumption. The research seeks to identify the problem of the consumption of electric energy, with its causes and effects, in the context of the Brazilian hydroelectric crisis. This research has as general objective to analyze and discuss the main actions that must be taken to obtain the reduction of the consumption of electric energy in competitive environments. To do so, it has specific objectives: to review the literature on the management of energy consumption and to identify a set of criteria for assessing energy management; To study the models reported in the literature with the indication of actions that contemplate the rational and efficient use of electric energy; To apply in the case study the criteria found in the literature and to propose actions of improvement and effective management of the adjusted electric consumption to a Research Institute of a Federal Autarchy in Rio de Janeiro. A review of the literature on Scopus and SciELO bases was carried out to support the construction of this model. A questionnaire was used to define and classify the set of criteria that contribute to the reduction of consumption in the model used. A group of experts was formed to validate the problems encountered and to give an opinion on the proposed solutions. The research method is inductive of an exploratory and descriptive nature with a qualitative-quantitative approach. The results of the literature review pointed to nine relevant criteria and show that it is possible to achieve a reduction in energy consumption based on the study of these criteria and their correlation with the variables collected in the case study. The results obtained from the questionnaire that was applied to the experts in the case study excluded the three less relevant criteria through the application of the Pareto Diagram. The research contributes to the development of a methodology for the evaluation of actions aimed at the rational use of electric energy. It also contributes to sustainable planning actions that can aid decision making at the operational and managerial levels in a context of hydroelectric crisis.