The Future

• Become Self Sustaining

• Produce enough power to return some to the electrical grid

Why• Help Protect the

Environment• Combat the Rising Cost of

Power

How• Introduction of New Printer

and Printing Processes• Deployment of Low Powered

Thin Clients to Minimalize Power Requirements

• Incorporate Solar Panels to Generate Power and Cells to Store the Power

October 2012

This company intends to lead the way in becoming self sustainable

• Having a Negative Carbon Footprint

• Benefiting the Environment

To go forward in todays markets a company must take a positive and proactive approach

The Way There

Energy efficiency and network stability is one step to sustainability

This involves the deployment of new process and equipment

Producing our own electricity and becoming self sustaining for our power usage

The Plan

Centralise the network with a thin client, server based architecture

New printing processes and the procurement of a better suited business printer

Server upgrade. This gives a better management option for the network as well as offering security for the users and data

Power efficient and monitoring devices to be installed to minimise power usage

The New Network

The Server – Manages the network and has all the required business software installed on it. It also securely stores all the users data.

The Thin Clients – These are the workstations for each user. They access the server which hosts a session for the user to use from their terminal. Each current workstation over time be replaced with much more energy efficient device.

Power Management – There will be devices attached to the network that will not require a conventional power source. As the new low powered Thin Clients are deployed there power will be

supplied from same cable that connects it to the network.

Power Control – A timing device will automatically restrict power going to the workstations after hours and restore it before the business starts the next morning minimalize power usage.

Printing – A new printer will be introduced to the network allowing access from all workstations simultaneously.

TESTING

Condition Web Client Y210 Y100 Wyse Ferrari Server

Black Box Server

OFF 0.27 1 0.3 11 3.1 19

Max Boot 5.1 5 3.5 12 30 42

Idle 3.4 5 3.2 11 22 42

Word/Excel 5.1 5 3.3 12 24 44

Browsing 4.6 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Video 6.7 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Music 5.2 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

NOTE : Monitor

21

Note: Switch

11

Results of testing the various options for

thin clients

The Short-term

Education program will be developed and deployed

Solar Panel installation completion will take place

New Server to be installed and Thin Client network integrated

New Printer processes to be implemented including an offsite printing option

Projected energy Usage

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Returned to GridGrid PowerGenerated Power

CONCLUSION

A New and Sustainable network – With the Future in Mind

Exciting and Leading Edge Eco-Technology Ideas

Sustainable Resources using Solar Panels

The Implantation of the proposal will see immediate results