Energy Saving with ICT -- Green University of Tokyo Project --

Energy saving and the protection of environment for sustainable society is now global agenda, that we must achieve for the next generation and for our Earth. This activity around IT and ICT industry is called as “Green IT/ICT”. Though the most of the Green IT/ICT would focus on the energy saving “of” IT/ICT equipments, we are focusing on the energy saving “by” IT/ICT technologies. The real target is not the energy saving, but is to establish ubiquitous digital sensor and actuator network environment and to encourage the technical innovation/revolution or new applications using this network platform. This is the “end-to-end” model that the Internet has achieved. In this presentation, the speaker gives the overview of R&D projects related with energy saving, e.g., Green University of Tokyo Project. The real goal of these projects is sharing any digital information over the globe to achieve higher efficiency on human and social activities and to establish the digital network infrastructure to achieve sustainable innovations.