Chandrakant Patel discusses how major technological advances will enable a more sustainable future. He notes that the global population is projected to grow significantly by 2050, putting strain on infrastructure and exceeding sustainability of current production and consumption methods. There is also a need for an integrated, holistic approach to managing resources through supply and demand. Emerging technologies like cyber-physical systems that combine information systems with physical assets can provide solutions through approaches like descriptive analytics applied to energy and water usage data to find patterns and anomalies. A framework is needed for integrated management of supply and demand using a second law of thermodynamics approach and considering the lifetime energy usage of physical systems facilitated by cyber systems from a cradle-to-cradle perspective

1. Chandrakant Patel Hewlett Packard
@ HP
How Major Technological Advances
Will Enable a More Sustainable Future

2. How major technological advances
will enable a more sustainable
future
Chandrakant D. Patel
HP Senior Fellow and Chief Engineer, HP Laboratories
@HPLivingProg, @HPLabs
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3. An Exciting Future
at the crossroads of people, profit, planet
and petabytes of data

4. 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

5. Technology Trends
Rise of Cyber-Physical Systems
Machine Age
19th Century
Information (cyber) Age
20th Century
Cyber Physical Age
21st Century

6. Data
Value
21st Century Cyber-Physical Solutions

7. 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
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Thermodynamic
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Data to Value
Descriptive Analytics applied to save water in chiller/cooling tower ensemble

8. A Framework for Cyber Physical Solutions
integrated supply-demand management

9. 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

10. 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

11. • Rise of Cyber Physical
Systems
• Fundamentals
• Technologies
• Multi-disciplinary knowledge
and collaboration to bridge the
islands of excellence
Summary

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