3. Virtually Sustainable Peter James and Lisa Hopkinson SusteIT, University of Bradford Videoconferencing (VC) and other virtual meeting technologies as a means of reducing travel-related energy and carbon Builds on 15 years previous research Collaboration with WVN
4. Surveys Surveys in 5-10 universities on staff use of virtual meeting technologies – quantify travel impacts Survey of university travel managers from over 40 universities and colleges Survey of JANET VC users
5. Virtual Events Conferencing , Edinburgh, Aug 2010 The V-Factor , 4 Welsh sites, Feb 2011 (with Welsh Video Network) E-learning best practice , Bradford, April 2011
6. Cases & Briefing Papers Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor/Llandrillo - until recently ~25% of all the UK-wide calls handled by the JANET VC Service. University of Bedfordshire - uses VC to reduce travel and improve communication between 5 campuses. Glenda Davies John Wells
7. Final Report Provisional UK conclusions: Considerable use, but JANET a minority Hunger for more Key barriers – ease of use, information, technology focused support
8. Open to Change Open data + social capital = altruistic punishment University of Oxford
9. Do we believe this kind of graphic will persuade people to act?
32. Features of PAWS? Server Controlled End user has the power! Savings stats are auto generated
33. Environmental Impact? 1 computer will typically consume 2.5 KW/h units of electricity per day So 750 computers will consume a total of 685,000 KW/h units a year! The PAWS prototype at Aber is currently saving an average of 28 tonnes per month of CO2 on public computers That’s approximately £100,000 a year electricity saving! PAWS will potentially carry this to an extra 1100 Staff computers and double the savings.
34. Goals? Open Source Institutional benefits View our blog at http://paws.aber.ac.uk Build on Previous Green ICT Projects Contact: Rob Johnson, rob.johnson@aber.ac.uk Help meet CO2 reduction aspirations
35. Greenview Dr. Richard Bull & Prof. Martin Rieser March 7 th , 2011
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39. Empedia and Augmented Reality The Empedia (www.empedia.info) platform has been developed under a KTP agreement between De Montfort and Cuttlefish Multimedia for iphone and Android platforms It will be enhanced with an Augmented reality browser for Greenview applications
46. United Kingdom Loughborough University, UK An open source online system to Catalogue your valuable and useful University Kit . M aking your assets findable, useful and used. For your own staff, students and beyond.
47. “ I need access to a 3D printer for my research student. I don’t really want to buy one from my budget and there is nowhere to put it in our department. Ah, thank goodness for the Kit-Catalogue! I know who to speak to, when I can use it and how it’s used.” Thermoplastic 3D Printer Loughborough University, UK Established in 2008 and contains details of 800 pieces of specialist equipment. Bench-top fully automated CHN elemental analyzer. Bench-top sedimentation jar test system.
48. Loughborough University, UK When a number of institutions install and use Kit-Catalogue the possibilities are endless. “ My University doesn’t have the equipment I need. I wonder if I can search for an electron microscope within 50 miles of LE11.” FLICKR @reedster
51. Measuring Data Centre Efficiency Colin Pattinson, Roland Cross Leeds Metropolitan University
52. Measuring Data Centre Efficiency Colin Pattinson, Roland Cross Leeds Metropolitan University
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55. OOPS! A perfect example of the difference between precision and accuracy. The grid reference … is precise to within 10m however its accuracy is somewhat limited! TL9137 9726 is near the village of Thompson in Norfolk. Even allowing for the typo on the sheet letters it would be about 74m out. If the sign had said “somewhere in Essex” it would have been accurate but not precise
61. All in one place! Team of the Month – LIS! Please note this is a mock up – the real dashboard will look much better ! Witnessed some good practice? Got an Issue you want to report? Building(s) Dates June 10 Energy Dec 10
70. U-CARE Methodology 3 main work packages: WP1: Establish benchmark energy consumption levels, (before and after technical development) WP2: Monitor facility usage, occupancy levels and user satisfaction WP3: Develop a software application in line with requirements (trended and analysed data etc)
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72. U-CARE Date of completion: 30 th June 2012 Contact: [email_address] [email_address] Tel: 0141 548 4753
73. Heat and Light by Timetable Colin Pattinson, Roland Cross, Mark Warner, Jim Fisher Leeds Metropolitan University
85. RECSO - Responsible Energy Costs in IT David Aaron Thomas & Martin Bennett Forum for the Future
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89. SusTEACH: Sustainable Tools for the Environmental Appraisal of the Carbon impacts of Higher Education teaching models using ICTs. Professor Andy Lane and Dr Sally Caird
114. Regional estimates using median values for energy use CO 2 emissions: 92 kt ~ 12% of Hackney’s emissions (2008 figures) Category Teaching-led Research-led Creatives/Specialists TOTAL No. public HEIs 15 4 23 42 energy use million kWh/year 58 94 20 171 electricity costs £million 4.6 – 7.0 7.5-11.0 1.6-2.4 13.7-20.6 C0 2 emissions million kg / year 31 50 10.5 92 % energy use 34% 55% 11%
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Editor's Notes
What is the project about? Define the goal of this project Is it similar to projects in the past or is it a new effort? Define the scope of this project Is it an independent project or is it related to other projects?
What is the project about? Define the goal of this project Is it similar to projects in the past or is it a new effort? Define the scope of this project Is it an independent project or is it related to other projects? * Note that this slide is not necessary for weekly status meetings
In December’s freeze, hot water from the building heating system flooded the first floor and drained down through the server room, destroying the server farm and VC bridges…... Expected to re-open in a few weeks. My first million pound insurance incident expect four-five months before all services re-instated!
Introduction - Who am i….where I am from PAWS = Power Down & Wake System What is it? An desktop power management solution offering automated sleep and waking capabilities, we have developed a prototype now live at Aberystwyth University in public workstation rooms and will now develop for the staff computer environment handling different working patterns. How long? 9 months, ending December 2011 External institutions involved - Swansea University & Trinity St Davids in Wales will participate in testing generic aspects of PAWS
Why? Commercial products such as 1e’s Nightwatchman that is the UK Public Sector’s preferred product: we found too expensive, costs £20K to make £50K savings Free products: too inflexible for our institution’s requirements and did not offer sufficient savings reporting that would be invaluable information for both the estates departments and individual users. Customise: allows us to develop the features that would best suit the characteristics of our organisation, e.g. such as staff computers being configurable by user yet public workstations be configured by room.
How? Server controlled sleep management of client computers – more accurate control and logging capability End user has the power: PAWS provides a user interface by which the end user clients may manage their own power management profile, and may also wake their computer up remotely should they wish to remote into their computer Power statistics and savings pages are automatically published to the web and the information may also be delivered as PDF reports
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Goals? Build on findings from previous JISC funded Green ICT projects to build this sustainable product Open Source: The project deliverables will be delivered by an open source licence and made available to the community, allowing the product to potentially be enhanced further Institutional benefits: a cost effective way of building on this concept to deliver the solution at institutions across the sector. Should commercial products be in use, hopefully PAWS will carry the potential to supercede these and thus reduce institutions costs. Government target: 40% reduction on 1990 CO2 levels, PAWS will hopefully significant contribute towards this reduction
Recent work by market research organisations IDC (Villars, 2008) and Gartner (Bell, 2008) demonstrates a massive growth in unstructured data - typically 80% of data in industry, potentially higher within universities owing to the nature of their business (Beedie et al. , 2009). Furthermore the Storage Networking Industry Association (2008) estimated that 80% of files were no longer modified 90 days after creation. More recently industry has suggested that 80% of stored data is inactive after 60 days (Quattromini, 2010). All the universities talked to during dissemination activities keep unstructured data on tier 1 storage regardless of value (e.g. intellectual property, research results, interim results) or currency (e.g. frequently accessed information, mature archive documents) to the university’s business. Tier 1 storage is highly-performant, reliable, highly available, mirrored and well protected. However, tier 1 storage has a relatively high environmental impact - the fastest, most reliable disk storage uses more power, space and cooling and this effect is doubled by high availability techniques like multi-site mirroring. In addition, protecting the storage with a very frequent backup regime involves considerable backup infrastructure (e.g. tape libraries, disk arrays and servers). All this equipment also has a high level of embodied energy. Lower tier storage could offer energy and cost savings. It is available in much higher density formats which take up less space and cooling, and has a lower embodied energy. Mirroring is often considered unnecessary for data with low availability requirements. Given the dynamic nature of universities, efforts to place data within taxonomies or use other methods to maintain accurate metadata have had limited success. However the access, creation and modification dates are all important pieces of automatically maintained information that may be used to establish data value.
Conducting tests with the disk array showed an increase of 8% in energy consumption between idle (disks spinning, no I/O) and maximum utilization (disks spinning and high levels of I/O).
A typical 20TB storage system configured with RAID 10 might require 180 Tier1 450GB 15,000rpm disk drives . This configuration would use 2.7kW, at a cost of around ￡ 2,600 per annum and be responsible for the production of 64 tonnes of CO 2 over the five year lifetime . By comparision, tiered storage might require only 36 of the same t ier 1 disk drives (migration policy 20 /80 tier 1/tier 2 ), and 18 t ier 2 7,200rpm 1TB (SATA) storage disks configured with RAID5 . The total collection of disks would use only 0.7 kW – for total cost of around ￡ 720 per annum – a saving of ￡ 1,880 per annum, and reduce associated CO 2 emissions by 46 tonnes over the five year lifetime. Using fewer disks (54 compared to 180) , reduces total storage system footprint freeing up p hysical space for futu r e growth in the datacentre .
Keiren Mccarthy kierenmccarthy.co.uk/photos/igf/
Coventry University Students Optimisation and Management of Energy Resources CU = Coventry University ST = Students E = Energy – it is difficult to persuade students to care about the energy they are using in student accommodation O & M = Optimisation and Management – of Energy Resources used by students in different types of student accommodation, particularly the energy they use for things like IT STOMER = Coventry University Students Optimisation and Management of Energy Resources
We plan to monitor energy usage in a range of different types of student accommodation Making energy usage visible may be one way of persuading students to change their behaviour. We will research good practice from elsewhere, including other JISC projects, and identify sensors which may be available to capture data on energy usage
We plan to undertake a questionnaire of students to determine What equipment students use What their current behaviours are What incentives or penalties might change their energy consumption behaviours
Key to this project will be engaging with students, ensuring they are made aware of their energy consumption and creating incentives and possibly competitions to encourage them to change their behaviour
Part of engaging with students will be to explore games to provoke further interest and engagement We will be working with CableCom Networking to capture energy data in a range of different buildings.
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