via: Can ICT deliver China’s carbon mitigation goals? | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk.
The Chinese government has pledged to reduce carbon intensity by over 40% by 2020. Simon Zadek considers the role of ICT in achieving this target.
A forum considering the role of ICT in enabling China’s low carbon transition took place [...]
via: Gazettabyte – Home – ICT could reduce global carbon emissions by 15%.
Keith Dickerson is chair of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) working party on information and communications technology (ICT) and climate change.
In a Q&A with Gazettabyte, he discusses how ICT can help reduce emissions in other industries, where the power hot [...]
via: Green energy to drive tower cos’ biz-Telecom-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times on Mobile. @the Economic Times of India
NEW DELHI: Telecom tower companies are beginning to use green and efficient alternatives in renewable energy, especially in rural areas where electricity is scarce, opening up new business avenues worth over $1 billion for clean energy equipment [...]
via: A sensor-driven life: IT companies wire up cities of the future | VentureBeat.
In a hospital somewhere, a patient falls out of bed. A loud alarm goes off, and nurses rush in. Then three blood pressure monitors and a crash cart go missing from the ER. Operations managers quickly locate them in [...]
via: Smart Grid: Smart grid fastest growing sustainable business in Canada.
Canada’s sustainable business market spending should grow from a 2010 level of US $2.3 billion to an impressive $3.7 billion by 2014. And the leading sector in spending? The smart grid, which is predicted to experience a compound annual growth rate of [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) announced today that after completing a rigorous public tender process, the fourth largest utility in Denmark, NRGi, has selected Echelon’s Networked Energy Services (NES) smart grid control system throughout its services territory. The system includes the award-winning Echelon software for sensing, [...]
via: American Chronicle | Deploying Advanced Energy Storage Makes Sense.
By Campbell, Chris
As the industry continues to move toward a smarter, more efficient power infrastructure, advanced energy storage has shown potential to facilitate a cleaner means of producing and delivering electricity by addressing existing and long-term challenges. In the near term, utilities [...]
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Nokia Siemens Networks is looking to revolutionise the mobile network with is Liquid Radio architecture, which not only promises to re-architect today’s base station infrastructure, but also to ultimately bridge the gap between highly specialise (and expensive) telecoms equipment and commoditise (cost competitive) computer components. Green Telecom Live talks to Mike Murphy, head of Technology [...]
Interview with Telenor Connexion: Inside the world of M2M
Telenor Connexion, the unit of the Telenor Group focused on the machine-to-machine market, has been developing and deploying M2M applications for customers for the past decade. Green Telecom Live speaks with Gwenn Larsson, head of marketing at Telenor Connexion, about what makes M2M different from the rest of the mobile industry and the kinds of [...]
Verne Global outlines Iceland data centre plans
Two years after we first published the Icelandic government’s plans to promote the building of data centres on its shores, a venture capital-backed start tup, Verne Global, is looking to make it a reality.
Verne Global, backed by General Catalysts from Boston, Novator in London and the Wellcome Trust, is now constructing a wholesale data centre [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 2: Cisco’s Unified Computing
Cisco this month unveiled what some company executives dubbed one of the biggest announcements for the network equipment maker – ever. With the announcement of its Unified Computing, Cisco officially enters the computing space, although not quite as previous speculation in the industry had outlined. Instead of just producing its own blade server, Cisco unveiled [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 1: Juniper’s single switching fabric
In the past couple of weeks, cloud computing has really taken off, with both service providers, server makers, and switching vendors all making big announcements on service deployments and new gear designed for cloud operating environments.
Specifically, both Juniper and Cisco made significant announcements in their vision of a next generation data centre environment that can [...]