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Note to SAP: Finding A Cheaper Travel Option isn’t Innovation

by monkchips on May 20, 2008 · 4 comments

in automation, energy demand management, logistics, sustainability, transportation

SAP is doing some interesting work around environmental sustainability, working on issues such as carbon accounting and environmental monitoring and compliance. For now SAP is working with partners such as OSIsoft and Technidata to help flesh out its offerings.
But in keynote land environmental sustainability doesn’t seem to have become a top bullet point item [...]

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Its Not The Houses That Are Smart Its The People

by monkchips on January 17, 2008 · 0 comments

in IT, automation, electrics, footprint, global warming

Probably the most interesting recent news GreenMonk has seen comes from a research project at the US Department of Energy, reported in Computerworld: Pilot program puts “smart” houses on network that adjusts energy use to pricing.
The technology in play included wireless technologies, broadband connections and back-end systems that use a Web-enabled service-oriented architecture for linking [...]

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Green plants: well what colour would you expect them to be?

by monkchips on November 9, 2007 · 0 comments

in automation

If you’ll excuse the rather feeble pun in the title (nice picture though!), I wanted to note something that has caught my attention-namely the speed at which the IT industry systems vendor debate is moving on from green data centers to end to end green plant management. Air-conditioning is so wasteful and overused. I was [...]

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