How Major Technological Advances will Enable a More Sustainable Future
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The document discusses how major technological advances will enable a more sustainable future. It outlines three main trends: (1) growing global population will strain infrastructure while current production and consumption methods are unsustainable; (2) the rise of cyber-physical systems that integrate information and physical systems; and (3) these systems can use data and analytics to improve sustainability by optimizing energy, emissions, water usage, and reliability. A framework is proposed for integrated supply-demand management using cyber-physical solutions based on thermodynamic fundamentals to manage resources from a cradle-to-cradle perspective in a more holistic way.
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How Major Technological Advances will Enable a More Sustainable Future
- 1. How major technological advances will enable a more sustainable future Chandrakant D. Patel HP Senior Fellow and Chief Engineer, HP Laboratories @HPLivingProg, @HPLabs 1
- 2. An Exciting Future at the crossroads of people, profit, planet and petabytes of data
- 3. Sustainability Trends People, Profit, Planet – Global population projected to be 9 billion by 2050 • Infrastructure needed to support growing base of citizens • Extending conventional infrastructure unsustainable • Extending current production-consumption methods unsustainable – Hidden Cost of Growth and Externalities: • Social cost of production and consumption, and externalities in light of current methods, will increase cost of basic necessities – State of art lacks a holistic approach • Need for economically efficient provisioning of resources based on integrated management of supply and demand
- 4. Technology Trends Rise of Cyber-Physical Systems Machine Age 19th Century Information (cyber) Age 20th Century Cyber Physical Age 21st Century
- 5. Data Value 21st Century Cyber-Physical Solutions
- 6. Cyber: Motif (pattern) mining of data, Anomaly Detection, Visual Analytics Focus on: Operational energy, emission, consumption of water and reliability Annual Savings: 359 MWh (~10%); 179,580 G direct water; 287, 328 Kg CO2 k ctcomp m p l crb j r i devcp dc G WWWWWWW Q COP sup Physical: Reference: Patnaik et. al, KDD 09’ Thermodynamic Fundamentals Data to Value Descriptive Analytics applied to save water in chiller/cooling tower ensemble
- 7. A Framework for Cyber Physical Solutions integrated supply-demand management
- 8. Integrated Management of Supply and Demand 2nd law of thermodynamics based holistic framework for a cyber physical world Chandrakant Patel, HP Laboratories chandrakant.patel@hp.com Available Energy Available Energy consumed by Information Technology Available Energy saved by application of Information Technology Reference: Chandrakant Patel, Sustainable Ecosystems: Enabled by Integrated Supply-Demand Management, ICDCN 2011
- 9. cradle-to-cradle CAD, CAE, LCA CAM-3d Printing Least Joules Lifetime Joules of Available Energy (Exergy) Consumed is the Currency cradle to cradle perspective of physical systems facilitated by cyber systems
- 10. • Rise of Cyber Physical Systems • Fundamentals • Technologies • Multi-disciplinary knowledge and collaboration to bridge the islands of excellence Summary
- 11. © Copyright 2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. hp.com/livingprogress @HPLivingProg #LivingProgress @HPLabs
Editor's Notes
- Our resource consumption challenges will stem from various drivers. The world population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050 [1]. How do we deal with the increasing strain that the economic growth is placing on our dwindling natural resources? Can we expect to meet the needs of society by solely relying on replicating and extending the existing physical infrastructure to cope with economic and population growth? Indeed, anecdotal evidence of the strain that society is placing on the supply side—the resources used for goods and services—is apparent. What is the hidden cost of growth. Externalities will impact social cost. The resulting inflationary impact could threaten the quality of life of billions. Thus, depletion of limited natural resources and increases in the cost of basic goods necessitates new business models and infrastructures that are designed, built and operated using the least possible amount of appropriate materials and energy. The supply side must be considered together with the societal demand for resources.
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