Energy Efficiency in ICT
The rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their penetration of all sectors of life make a lot of very positive effects possible, such as increasing efficiency, virtual products and services. The downside of this development is its part in the significant increase of CO2 emissions which already exceeds that of the air transport. So it is economically viable and environmentally necessary to improve the energy efficiency of ICT systems significantly.
Participation in national working groups and the development of novel approaches to increase efficiency, based on innovative load and energy management solutions, are pursued at OFFIS with the aim of reducing energy consumption of computers and data centers in particular.
Energy-efficient Datacenters
Ecological, economic but in the meantime also technical problems force action in the optimization of energy consumption in data centers. Great potential for optimization lies in the hitherto largely static binding of services of data centers to the corresponding hardware resources working off the computational load, which resulted in severe underutilization. Load and Power Management can help here to greatly increase the efficiency of the use of hardware and energy by adapting dynamically the resources to the fluctuating demand. Necessary control and monitoring capabilities for the realization of such a solution already exist, however concepts for the use of these opportunities are still missing. Therefore, at OFFIS solutions are being developed as well for a data center's internal as a cross-data center load management.
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Overview on Smart Grid Standardization Studies
Currently, several smart grid efforts in US and Europe are gaining momentum. Even if there are different focuses in US and Europe on what is known as the smart grid, all agree on the fact, that standardization is a key issue. Hence, a lot of studies and roadmaps pick standardization in the context of smart grids out as a central theme. The various approaches are concentrating on different core areas, depending on the circumstances in which they were elaborated.
We worked out an overview on the different Smart Grid Standardization Studies which we will continuously update - please click here.