Companies today are realising that they need to be aware of how ‘Green’ they really are. There is consciousness among corporate that green is the way to go. All around us there is talk about companies not only looking at reducing their own carbon footprint, but also that of their clients. A number of IT leaders are introducing innovations in their products to ensure that they are low emitters of carbon. Well here is a simple solutions by one such company called ‘GREENTRAC’ that help you save your business energy cost and carbon emission.

• Reduce PC Energy Consumption.
• Meet Green IT Targets.
• Save Money

An enterprise’s PC fleet generally accounts for between one-third and half of the IT energy use, with the remainder used by printers, PABX, servers and the data centre. Savings achievable from the PC fleet can be almost equal to the total data centre energy use!

Current generation power management tools generally do not recognize the individual as the most appropriate form of power management decision making and tend to be IT-centric.

• Users and groups do not receive comparative information allowing them to understand and compare their PC energy efficiency efforts to others, as individuals or as groups.
• Current generation PC power management tools tend to be driven by system administrators on a batch basis and not by the users in real time.
• Users do not currently receive the necessary acknowledgment or feedback regarding their individual efforts in supporting the sustainability initiatives within their enterprise.

For many Greentrac users, even enterprises using PC shutdown products, the savings from the PC fleet represented 10% - 40% of total enterprise green initiatives last year and Greentrac almost always achieved the fastest payback of any initiative.

Here is how Greentrac Works

Step One: Deployment.

Greentrac appliance is deployed. This usually takes less than one hour.

Step Two: Install Client Software.

Desktop Monitoring Agents (DMAs) are deployed to all workstation PCs, laptops and Macs.

DMAs are ultra-light - less than 300KB compared with 20MB or larger for traditional agents.

Step Three: Get The Results.

Workstation DMA provides profile (CPU, speed, memory, disks, monitors) to appliance upon installation.

Subsequently the DMA provides summary operating data required to calculate energy use on a preset interval (e.g. every 1 minute) using almost no network resources.

Appliance calculates energy use based on PC profile and updates energy, energy cost and CO2 used by PC in real time. Information is available to users in real time from appliance portal.

So ready to go green and make a difference to the world?

Interesting Blogs:

http://injoos.com/blog/newway2work/

Wanted to share with you about a recently conducted awareness campaign for Rural School students in the dense forest region of Karnataka; Biligiri Rangana Forest Range which I was lucky to be part of. Ashwin who heads the “Growing Wild” organization came down to Injoos and spoke to us regarding this awareness campaign and the Injoos team members got kicked and decided to join hands for this noble cause.

Belive me, those 3 days that I spent at the the awareness camp among the rural school students was one of the best days in my life. We split up into 2 teams 4 in each to cover wider area. Talking about the response from the students, it was unexpected. We had a plan to cover over 50 schools that was in and around the Biligiri Rangana Forest range and spend around 15 minutes at each school to convey our thoughts but, seeing the response from the students and their willingness to save our forests we could not stop ourselves from spending more time with the students interacting and answering their questions and queries. We were amazed to see and hear from students the amount of information that they knew about the forests and the animals living within those forests and not to mention their willingness to save the forests.

“We have got a strong response from various other school children around other sanctuaries like Nagarahole Forest Range, Bandipur Forest Range etc to which the information is being conveyed in the same way from past few years.. “This was the 1st strong and successful effort to convey information on the conservation of forest around the Biligiri Rangana forest range..” shared one of the ‘Growing Wild’ member enthusiastically.

As per the latest state of forests report by the Forest Survey of India the actual forest cover of India is 19.27% of the geographic area, corresponding to 63.3 million hectors. In the absolute term, out of the 63 million hectors of forests an area of around 3.73 million can be presumed to be affected by fires annually. This figures are alarming as 3.73 million hectors of forest cannot be regrown in few years.

Early this year a strong roar across the country was sounded to save the national animal of our country, for the lovers of the wild and the creatures living within it, this news was a bolt of fire that had hit their life as if a huge forest fire had burst out. Until 1970 poaching was legal across India and Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 was enforced to ban hunting. Until a century back there were more than 40,000 odd tigers roaming across India alone which was around 60% of the complete world’s tiger population and now the count is less that 1400. Alarming isn’t it.?

For people familiar with the Bangaluru traffic will understand when I say that it would be great when all the cars, two wheelers are off the road. Maybe that pipe dream is closer to reality if we all Bangaloreans contribute and enjoy the Bangalore Municipal Bus service for a day on February 4th which is being celebrated as Bangaluru Bus Day. BTW, Bangalore has the best public bus service in the country and it is the only profitable public transport enterprise in the nation. It boasts the only and the biggest fleet of air-conditioned Volvo buses. I definitely plan to be on the bus to the office on Thursday (even though my house is pretty close to office as a symbolic gesture). Share your experiences on the day you left that vehicle behind and help reduce the pollution levels in a city which we still like to call the “Garden city”.

Some interesting factoids and opinions on Bengaluru Bus day.

http://aravind-krishnaswamy.blogspot.com/2010/01/feb-4th-bangalore-bus-day.html

Map of Premium Bus service in Bangalore

Respond to the BMTC (Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation) survey

See what people are tweeting on Bangalore Bus Day