Data-driven organizations that embrace Digital Transformation possess immense potential for innovation and enhanced efficiency. However, it is also crucial to leverage that potential for the good of the planet and turn your sustainability ambitions into measurable and tangible results.
Feel free to share your ideas, thoughts, and insights regarding practical applications, best practices, and examples of how data can be harnessed to reduce environmental footprints. Remember, even the tiniest actions can yield a huge impact.
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USE CASE : smart powering of on-prem devices used for ad-hoc services
With DataMiner we do a lot of resource planning & orchestration for ad-hoc services (e.g. MCRs, contribution links for sports events, etc.). This means that DataMiner has perfect visibility on when resources are used, and when they are idle.
This is undoubtedly also an opportunity to reduce footprint. Because in many environments, all this equipment is fully powered up and running 24/7. As part of the orchestration, DataMiner could power up and down that equipment, or leverage hibernation features to put them in a low power mode if available. PDUs (Power Distribution Units) could be used for that, where available WOL (Wake On LAN) maybe, etc.
This would reduce power consumption of the device itself, but also the power needed to cool the facility (interesting fact: on average, cooling of these facilities represents 40% of the overall power consumption, so you pay almost as much to cool a piece of equipment as you do to power it apparently).
Switch vendors also promote a list of features to reduce power consumption (you can put an idle switch in standby mode, idle switch ports can be set to standby mode, unused network uplinks can be set to lower power hibernation mode, etc.). I’ve already heard of disabling ports when no scheduled services are running, to improve the security posture, but this would also reduce power consumption. Double win.