Concepts of information society

Future Emerging Technologies (FET)

on top of the ICT
 Introduction
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The main idea
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Power Efficiency
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Green IT
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Secure Remote Control
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Smart Modules in Automotive Industry
 The main idea
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Emerging technologies are technologies
whose development, practical applications, or
both are still largely unrealized
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Characterized by
– Fast growth
– Coherence
– Prominent impact
– Uncertainty and ambiguity
 The main idea
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Funding Commissions and Organizations
– Global topics
– Long term targets
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Companies investments
– Short term revenue model
– Long term products
 Power Efficiency
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Reduce the amount of energy required to provide
products and services
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General
– Renewable Energy Sources (RES)
– Thermal Isolation and Climate Systems Efficiency
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Based on ICT
– Open Data
– Applications that generate reports
– Knowledge understandable for users
 Power Efficiency
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Software tools can provide information and data on how to
better configure the various elements of a system so as to
optimize its overall energy performance
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Individual or large-scale
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Open Data
– Open energy system database projects employ open data methods to
collect, clean, and republish energy-related datasets for open use.
– statistical analysis and for building numerical energy system models
– information on national power plant fleets, renewable generation
assets, transmission networks, time series for electricity loads, energy
statistics including fossil fuel imports and exports, gas, oil, and coal
prices, information on energy efficiency costs and benefits
 Power Efficiency
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Open Data
– Sources: official or semi-official agencies,
crowdsourcing
– make public policy energy models more transparent
– Open Energy Platform
– Open Power System Data
– OpenGridMap
– Reegle
 Power Efficiency
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Reporting
– keep track of energy use over time and develop
strategies for energy reduction
– highlights achievements of the utility’s portfolio of
efficiency programs
– tables and charts that quantify spending, savings, and
achievement of other objectives
– Energy efficiency reporting practices vary widely
among utilities and other program administrators and
states
Power Efficiency
 Green IT
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Green IT or IT Sustainability refers to the study
and practice of using computers and IT
resources in a more efficient and
environmentally responsible way. Computers
and computing eat up a lot of natural
resources, from the raw materials needed to
manufacture them, the power used to run
them, and the problems of disposing them at
end of life.
 Green IT
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The energy consumption from the expanding use of information and
communications technology (ICT) is unsustainable with present drivers,
and it will impact heavily on the future climate change
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High-performance computing systems are the ICT-enabling technology
for advanced mathematical modelling and numerical simulations
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ICT devices have the potential to contribute significantly to the reduction
of CO2 emission and enhance resource efficiency in other sectors, e.g.,
transportation, heating and manufacturing.
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Reduce the use of hazardous materials, maximize energy efficiency
during the product's lifetime, the recyclability or biodegradability of
defunct products and factory waste
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Important for all classes of systems, ranging from handheld systems to
large-scale data centers
 Green IT
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Virtualization
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Cloud computing
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E-waste
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Data center management
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Organizational motivation factors for Green IT
 Green IT
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Virtualization
– abstraction of computer resources
– run two or more logical computer systems on one
set of physical hardware
– conserve resources by removing need for the
original hardware
– reduce power and cooling consumption
– operating-system-level virtualization can also be
used to reduce energy consumption
 Green IT
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Cloud computing
– energy usage and resource consumption
– reduce their direct energy consumption and
carbon emissions by up to 30% and 90%
(depending on size of business)
 Green IT
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E-waste
– discarded electrical or electronic devices
– Electronic scrap components contain potentially harmful materials
– 44.7 million tonnes generated in 2016
– Rapid changes in technology, changes in media, falling prices, and
planned obsolescence contribute to increase of e-waste
– Different devices have different useful lives
– Recycling computing equipment can keep harmful materials out of
landfills, and can also replace equipment that otherwise would
need to be manufactured
– parts from outdated systems may be salvaged and recycled
 Green IT
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Data center management
– Data center facilities are heavy consumers of energy, accounting for between
1.1% and 1.5% of the world's total energy use in 2010
– data centers represent 21% of the electricity consumed by the IT sector
– Energy efficient data center design should address all of the energy use
aspects included in a data center: IT equipment, heating, ventilation and air
conditioning equipment, location, configuration and construction of the building.
– on-site electrical generation and recycling of waste heat
– Energy efficient data center design should help to better utilize a data center's
space, and increase performance and efficiency.
– Low-power servers
– Modular data centers
– Free air cooling
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 Secure Remote Control
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Smart Home
– Access (read from) Devices
– Control Devices
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Industry
– Control machines (Pump Controls, Tank Level
Monitoring, Emergency Notification, Data Logging)
– Protect people from the dangerous manual control
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Risks
– Communication problems and devices reachability
– Unauthorized access (hack)
 Smart Modules
in Automotive Industry
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Hybrid and electric vehicles
– alleviate fossil fuel dependency, reduce greenhouse gas emission, and improve energy efficiency.
– ICT in the software of embedded controllers (battery management, charging)
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Auto pilot
– vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving safely with little or no human input
– Artificial Intelligence is still not able to function properly in chaotic inner-city environments
– Susceptibility of the car's sensing and navigation systems to different types of weather
– Avoidance of large animals requires recognition and tracking
– infrastructure may need changes
– Audi 2012 - project
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Obstacle detection sensors
– sense slow-moving or stationary objects when driving at low speeds
– ultrasonic sensors mounted on the front and/or rear bumpers
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Integration with GPS
– automatically determining and transmitting the geographic location of a vehicle
– Location services embedded in the car equipment
– manage fleets of vehicles such as service vehicles, emergency vehicles, and public transport vehicles
– Tesla Model S
 Discussion
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Familiar?
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Interesting?
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Challenging?
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Complex?