Reducing Energy Waste through Eco-Aware Everyday Things

Reducing energy waste through eco-aware everyday things

Society wastes much more energy than it should. This produces tons of unnecessary CO2 emissions. This is partly due to the inadequate use of electrical devices given the intangible and invisible nature of energy. This misuse of devices and energy unawareness is particularly relevant in public spaces (offices, schools, hospitals and so on), where people use electrical appliances, but they do not...

Energy Aware Management for Internet of Things

Designing Everyday Computational Things

Much development of information technology has been about reducing the importance of distances and user location. Still, many important activities and events are of local nature, for instance serendipitous face-to-face communication. In order to support such communication, as well as other examples of local interaction, we have developed three prototypes all based on wireless short-range commun...

Reducing Research Waste Through Good Reporting Practices

Roughly 85% of healthcare research funding may be wasted due to several avoidable reasons, including poor research question selection, poor study design, selective nonpublication, and poor reporting.1 The cost of waste worldwide was estimated at 200 billion United States dollars in 2010.1 All actors in the research field—researchers, institutions, regulators, funders, publishers, and policy mak...

E-eco: Performance-aware energy-efficient cloud data center orchestration

The high energy consumption of data centers has been a recurring issue in recent research. In cloud environments, several techniques are being used that aim for energy efficiency, ranging from scaling the processors frequency, to the use of sleep states during idle periods and the consolidation of virtual machines. Although these techniques enable a reduction in power consumption, they usually ...