Energy challenges for ICT
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2017-03-22
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Fagas, Giorgos
Gallagher, John P.
Gammaitoni, Luca
Paul, Douglas J.
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InTechOpen
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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. However, ICT devices have the potential to contribute significantly to the reduction of CO2 emission and enhance resource efficiency in other sectors, e.g., transportation (through intelligent transportation and advanced driver assistance systems and self-driving vehicles), heating (through smart building control), and manufacturing (through digital automation based on smart autonomous sensors). To address the energy sustainability of ICT and capture the full potential of ICT in resource efficiency, a multidisciplinary ICT-energy community needs to be brought together covering devices, microarchitectures, ultra large-scale integration (ULSI), high-performance computing (HPC), energy harvesting, energy storage, system design, embedded systems, efficient electronics, static analysis, and computation. In this chapter, we introduce challenges and opportunities in this emerging field and a common framework to strive towards energy-sustainable ICT.
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ICT , Energy efficiency , Energy sustainability , Low power , Embedded systems , Smart sensors , High-performance computing , Data centres , Internet of Things
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Fagas, G., Gallagher, J. P., Gammaitoni, L. and Paul, D. J. (2017) 'Energy challenges for ICT', in Fagas, G. (ed.) ICT - Energy Concepts for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability. London, UK: InTechOpen, pp. 1-36. doi: 10.5772/66678
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© 2017, the Authors. Licensee IntechOpen. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction for non-commercial purposes, provided the original is properly cited.