Green Power architecture considerations for rural computing

The introduction of computer technology has brought revolutionary impacts to the living in rural areas. This technology has narrowed the digital divide between the urban and the rural. However, limitation in electricity supply is the major constraint in powering up the Information and Communications...

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Main Authors: Sin, Giap Yew, Chong, Eng Tan, Thangaveloo, R.
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2012
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Chong, Eng Tan
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description The introduction of computer technology has brought revolutionary impacts to the living in rural areas. This technology has narrowed the digital divide between the urban and the rural. However, limitation in electricity supply is the major constraint in powering up the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) equipment in the rural. Consistent electricity supply has become an obstacle in deploying computing systems in the rural environment. Therefore, green and energy efficient power architecture has been proposed in this paper to reduce power wastage and make efficient use of the power for consumption by ICT equipment in order to prolong the operating time of the equipment. Green power architecture can generally be organized into several areas of application such as power sustainability, energy efficiency and reduction in power loss. The effective use of power provision in rural areas has also been taken into consideration. This paper shows that systems that are direct DC powered, wired networked and use solid state Hard Disk Drive (HDD) are more energy efficient and those are the important parameters for rural computing implementation.
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spelling unimas-166532017-06-15T00:55:21Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16653/ Green Power architecture considerations for rural computing Sin, Giap Yew Chong, Eng Tan Thangaveloo, R. T Technology (General) The introduction of computer technology has brought revolutionary impacts to the living in rural areas. This technology has narrowed the digital divide between the urban and the rural. However, limitation in electricity supply is the major constraint in powering up the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) equipment in the rural. Consistent electricity supply has become an obstacle in deploying computing systems in the rural environment. Therefore, green and energy efficient power architecture has been proposed in this paper to reduce power wastage and make efficient use of the power for consumption by ICT equipment in order to prolong the operating time of the equipment. Green power architecture can generally be organized into several areas of application such as power sustainability, energy efficiency and reduction in power loss. The effective use of power provision in rural areas has also been taken into consideration. This paper shows that systems that are direct DC powered, wired networked and use solid state Hard Disk Drive (HDD) are more energy efficient and those are the important parameters for rural computing implementation. IEEE 2012 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16653/1/Green%20Power%20Architecture%20Considerations%20for%20Rural%20%28abstract%29.pdf Sin, Giap Yew and Chong, Eng Tan and Thangaveloo, R. (2012) Green Power architecture considerations for rural computing. IEEE 10th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC), 2011. ISSN ISBN: 978-1-4577-0978-4 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6150292/ DOI: 10.1109/MICC.2011.6150292
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Green Power architecture considerations for rural computing
title Green Power architecture considerations for rural computing
title_full Green Power architecture considerations for rural computing
title_fullStr Green Power architecture considerations for rural computing
title_full_unstemmed Green Power architecture considerations for rural computing
title_short Green Power architecture considerations for rural computing
title_sort green power architecture considerations for rural computing
topic T Technology (General)
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