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Current Major Research Topics
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Energy Efficient Digital
Networks — Energy savings in IT and CE networks. |
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Energy
Star program support — Computers, Servers, and Imaging Equipment. |
Other Current Projects / Interests
- Buildings as Networks —
Designing a good energy-efficient network future rather than accepting
what is developed for other reasons.
- Lighting Control User Interfaces —
Creating a global standard.
- Low-voltage DC: Prospects and
Opportunities for Energy Efficiency.
- Low-power mode residential energy
consumption. Almost 15% of California residential energy consumption is
due to products consuming power in some low-power mode (not performing a
principal function) with about 2/3 of this due to electronics. A first
estimate (2004) of this is Developing and Testing Low Power Mode Measurement
Methods. An updated estimate is Low-Power Mode Energy Consumption
in California Homes. We also developed a Taxonomy of electronic and miscellaneous
products. EEDAL paper on Network connectivity and low-power
mode energy consumption.
- Future Networking of Displays —
speculation on where technology and energy use is headed.
- Service Provider Pays — how to
save more set-top box energy use more easily.
- Thermostats. See a recent talk on Climate control for 2020 — T-stats as a
digital network presented October 15, 2007 to a workshop on
thermostats at LBNL.
Recent Talks
- What the Real World Tells Us about Saving
Energy in Electronics — Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic
Systems (E3S) -- CITRIS / UCB , June 11, 2009.
- Linux, Energy, and Networks:
"Saving Large Amounts of Energy With Network Connectivity
Proxying" — Linux Collaborative Summit, April 9, 2009.
- ICT, Networks, and Energy: The Energy
Perspective — OFC / NFOEC conference, March 22, 2009.
- Networks, Standards,
and Energy: The Energy Perspective — IEA/IEC/ISO Workshop on
Standards and Climate Change, March 16-17, 2009.
- Building
Networks for the 22nd Century — EPRI AMI/HAN work group, February
13, 2009.
- Digital
Networks: Energy and Beyond — LBNL/EETD noon Seminar, January 9,
2009 (at actual seminar, only electronics slides shown).
Past Projects
Power Management Controls — a
project to develop standards for terms, symbols, indicators, etc. to increase
power management savings.
Materials Use / Consumption
This is no longer an active research area of mine.
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Paper End-Use
Efficiency — practical information on reducing paper use. This web
site dates from Fall, 1998, but much of the information is still applicable. |
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Consumption Efficiency
in general — improving materials consumption to reduce industrial
production and increase quality of life. |
I work for Alan Meier. We are part of the
Energy Analysis Department.
Last Modified: February 17, 2009