Green IT

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.

               

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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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