Environmental Benefits
Companies and public institutions are increasingly incorporating environmental sustainability initiatives into their core business practices, both to achieve bottom-line cost savings and to be recognized as being environmentally responsible. Verdiem’s SURVEYOR software offers immediate, measurable environmental benefits and is one of the easiest and most cost-effective sustainability measures your organization can implement.
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions (CO2) by eliminating PC energy waste
With the overwhelming evidence that the carbon dioxide (CO2) generated while producing electricity is a leading cause of global warming, organizations across the world are taking the initiative to reduce CO2 emissions by conserving energy. One of the simplest energy-saving opportunities is right under your fingertips: eliminating energy waste in PCs and their monitors. PCs are voracious consumers of electricity, and their energy use is soaring to keep pace with faster processors, more RAM, and power-hungry peripherals.
The average PC and its monitor consume 650 kWh (kilowatt-hours) annually,1 resulting in 322 kg to 603 kg of CO2 being sent into the atmosphere, just to keep that one computer system going.2 Multiply that by the power needed to run a 5,000- PC network, and it can reach 3.02 million kg of CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere yearly! (For comparison, that’s the same amount of CO2 produced by 475 midsize vehicles in a year. 3 )
This waste is a goldmine of potential energy and cost savings for your business and of CO2 reduction for the environment. With Verdiem’s SURVEYOR, your enterprise can tap that goldmine by gaining network-level control over the power settings of every Microsoft Windows-based PC system on your network, so that these systems can be safely put into low-power states (shutdown, standby, and hibernate for PCs, and sleep for monitors) whenever they’re not in use. Just by automatically putting PCs into standby mode when users are in meetings, at lunch, or gone for the day, you can effortlessly save an average of 200 kWh of energy per PC - half of the energy that is typically wasted, and a third of the energy that is usually consumed.4 That not only translates to lower operating costs for the organization (£14 to £28 per PC annually, depending on local electricity rates), it also means that you’re helping to reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 200 kg per PC a year.
- DTI
- International Emissions Trading Association.
- World Resources Institute, Car Companies and Climate Change, Earth Trends 2003..
- Advanced Energy, Demonstration of SURVEYOR Software Implementation and Economic Feasibility, Final Report; August 2004.