Ideas for my Senior Project?

I'm a computer science student and I'm planning for my senior project next year.
I've proposed to do a power consumption meter application for Network Administrators. It's supposedly gonna gather power consumption information from the server and from the workstations within the local network.
I wanna do this kind of project because my university prefers projects to be somehow beneficial to the community and environment, and this tool will somehow help network administrators to keep track of their energy consumption and aid them in being more cost-efficient, not to mention environment-friendly, when it comes to networking.
The only programming language I know well is Java. But so far I dunno how I'm gonna do this project.
The only idea I have is that I have to be able to access hardware information, and also be able to access it over a network protocol. That way, I guess i can estimate power consumption from each of the hardware unit models used in the network.
Do you guys have any more ideas on how this project can be done?
Thanks in advance.

You must have missed what I was saying:
Hardware interfacing is done in C/C++ or some other language other than Java. Java supports an interface to communicate with other routines developed in C/C++ or any language that will support a C/C++ calling structure. This interface is called JNI and is meant to allow your Java portion of your application to communicate/interface with your C/C++ portion of your application. JNI requires the "*.h" files created for you C/C++ project.
Other than being a lot of C/C++ code and a JNI component, your project should be fairly straight forward.

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I am new at Aperture and i do not have any idea how
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Question 1: How many years of experience do you have
with programming in Java?Hmm.. Think it's been 6 or 7 years. Since it came out.
Question 2: How many hours a week do you program in
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Question 5: What online reference do you find yourself
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this or emailing [email protected] . Thank you
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