University ICT Project: Power Consumption Reduction and Sustainability

This report focuses on minimizing energy consumption in an ICT project to achieve sustainability, particularly within a school lab setting. It outlines design stages for ICT project development, emphasizing the importance of green data centers to control carbon emissions and promote the use of environmentally friendly components. The report proposes strategies for integrating renewable energy, recycling asset management, and conducting energy audits to enhance organizational values and ensure smooth infrastructure operations. It details the implementation of a green data center, workload management, and monitoring of power usage effectiveness (PUE) and data center infrastructure efficiency (DCIE). The report also provides test results, recommended short-term technology solutions, and an analysis of energy usage within the ICT project, including equipment load, energy costs, and carbon emission measurements. The report concludes with a discussion on network operation, security, and the benefits of a green network, along with references to relevant research papers.

INTRODUCTION
 In this report, we are looking forward to
minimize the energy consumption of the ICT
component so that sustainability of the
school lab cannot be disturbed.
 The report of this report is to prepare design
stages for the development of ICT projects.
Sustainability can be achieved by analysing
and evaluating the energy audit of the school
lab.

ICT SUSTAINABILITY FROM BUSINESS
POINT OF VIEW
 Proposed solution is better for the
organization because green data centre
helps in controlling the emission of carbon in
the environment and helps in using the
components which are environmental
friendly in an effective way so that power
management can be effectively carried out.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY AS A STEPPING
STONE TO SUSTAINABILITY
 Carbon emission through the ICT technology
can be controlled by inducing the program of
renewable energy and recycling asset
management system.
 Economic growth of the enterprise depends on
the adverse effect of organization operational
working on the environment.
 Values of the organization can be enhanced by
aligning the business operation through the
offsetting of values and asset synchronization.
 Auditing program is ensured in the project for
recognizing the offset standards for running the
organization infrastructure smoothly.

PROJECT STRATEGY

 System operations which are performed by the proposed
system are illustrated below:
 Entering into green data centre
 Managing workload of the ICT technology through the
distribution of required resources
 Monitoring the Power usage effectiveness (PUE) which can
be calculated by evaluating the ratio of total facility load
and total ICT load
 Monitoring the Data centre infrastructure efficiency (DCIE)
 Measuring the annual electricity used and consumed by
the resources
 Calculating annual cost of energy utilized and consumed
 Measuring Co2 emission in the environment

NETWORK OPERATION AND SECURITY
 Green data centre keeps the information of
emitting carbon component and electricity
used by the resources.
 Connectivity between the switches and other
equipment focuses on controlling 55% of
carbon emission.
 Monitoring of the carbon components can be
checked by evaluating the use of electricity
in managing the data centres.

RECOMMENDED PROJECT SYSTEM

TEST RESULT
 Minimizes cost
 Green Network support
 Minimizing carbon emission
 Energy Efficiency

SHORT TERM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION TO
ACHIEVE POWER REDUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
 Green data centre should be installed in the
network to keep tracking of the carbon
emission in the environment which helps in
controlling resource utilization, load
management, IT power supply, and others.

ENERGY USAGE WITHIN THE ICT
PROJECT
Equipment Quantity Unit load in
kilowatt per
hour
Cost of energy
used per unit
Server 1 0.84 0.32
Desktop
computer
19 0.56 0.32
Switch 1 0.15 0.35
Router 1 0.13 0.33
Solar panels 20 0.12 0.33
Gel batteries 10 0.05 0.33
Inverter 1 0.42 0.33
Lighting system 1 0.16 0.33

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