Name: Dipesh Manandhar
Student ID: SITY1C112006
Group: L1C1
Green IT
In a topic Green
IT a person called Michelle Hazelton is researching green IT for the Ethical
Property Company. He starts his research
process even though it was challenging and frustrating, he was always extremely
interested in his work. He has adopted an approach whereby positive changes can
be implemented with little cost and modest effort. So he conducted an audit of
the company’s IT equipment and energy consumption. It was general practices
adopted for purchasing and recycling and peoples’ general understanding of
green IT. After establishing his starting point he conduct monitoring process
over a number of weeks in order to gain an understanding of both the time
periods when energy consumption was highest and how much was actually consumed
in those periods. After researching he revealed that about sixty percentage of
the building’s energy is consumed when the building is mostly unoccupied,
namely overnight and at weekends. He concluded that PC power consumption can be
split into three categories: off, idle and load. PC and monitor that have been
switched off still draw on average twenty watts of power. It was just like a
leaving a lamp on every night and every weekend all the time. It proved that
amount of energy is being wasted when the building is mostly unoccupied. Then he
just moved forward for the solution so, he encourages people to switch off
equipment at the plug before they leave the office. He contacted numerous of
organizations to gain knowledge and understand how to calculate the embedded
carbon foot print of IT devices but unfortunately nothing was returned to him.
To be truly green, through IT, we will need to take into account all aspects of
the processes involved with manufacturing and shipping. His advice to people
who are just starting to implement green IT to get easily started by spending a
little time investigating current energy consumption, recycling and purchasing
practices. By taking a meter reading at the start and end of the working day,
is an effective way of identifying how much energy is being used when the
office is unoccupied.
PC
energy calculator is the device in which we can calculate the total power
consumption by the PC in the ON- mode, Sleep-mode and OFF-mode per day, month
and years. This calculator also displays total cost of the power that we have
used in a day. If we are using the printer and modem than also we can add it
and calculate the power loss by them too. The calculator also shows the total
electricity consumed in year.
References:
Works Cited
Anon., n.d. WEEE directive. [Online] Available
at: http://www.intertek.com/green/weee/.
Hazelton, M., 2008. Green
IT. [Online] Available at: http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.22412 [Accessed October 2008].
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