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Smart Grid

• PowerMeter

  Google PowerMeter is a free electricity usage monitoring tool that provides you with information on how much energy your home is consuming.

• Smart Grid: Electric Distribution Grid System Optimization

  CURRENT Group LLC has developed a System Optimization solution provides electric utilities the visibility and control necessary to dynamically optimize power delivery.  The solution which optimizes the distribution grid is estimated to reduce electric generation requirements and related carbon by 3 to 5% without impacting upon, or requiring any change in customer behaviour, while also enabling the integration of intermittent renewables.

Smart Buildings

• AlertMe

  A home in Cambridgeshire was fitted with an AlertMe Energy kit. The residents were keen to reduce their energy consumption and to save money on their electricity bills. The use of AlertMe Energy provided them with the ability to monitor and control their energy usage and using this information they were able to reduce their electricity consumption and their bills.
  
  

• Digital Home Energy Management System (DEHEMS)

  DEHEMS aims to extend the current state of the art in intelligent meters, moving beyond energy ‘input’ models that monitor the levels of energy being used to an ‘energy performance model’ that also looks at the way in which the energy is used.

• Empire State Building Retrofit

  Built during the Great Depression, the Empire State Building symbolizes America's limitless potential. Today the building is undergoing a major sustainability retrofit to become a leading example of economic and environmental revitalization. Consulting, design, and construction partners Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI), Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), and Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), recently completed an 8 month modeling and analysis project which will save up to 38 percent of the building's energy and $4.4 million annually. See www.esbsustainability.com for more info

• Greenspaces Design

  A building project for IT/ITES office spaces including retail, hotel, medical, facilities. The purpose of the designs by Greenspace is to maximise daylight, reduce heating, regulate and reduce electricity consumption, generate solar power from roof-mounted PV modules; and make use of technologies such as geothermal cooling, LED lighting, and water conservation techniques.

• One Market Street, San Francisco LEED Building Certification

  LEED Platinum certification of new Autodesk facility to serve as a showcase of sustainable building retrofit design, implemented utilizing what many might call the future of the design and construction industry, Integrated Project Delivery.
  

• State of Missouri Building Energy Retrofit

  With Missouri's operations and maintenance bills hitting $300 million annually, state officials decided to upgrade the facilities' control and information management systems — which had operated separately — into a shared building information management system, and manage all facility subsystems for more than 1,000 buildings through a single portal at one location.

• Waltham, MA LEED Building Construction

  The new 61,000 square foot complex was built according to the U.S. Green Building Council standards to demonstrate Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Autodesk has achieved LEED Platinum CI Certification for the interior and LEED Gold Certification for the building’s core and shell. Not only does the building’s design and construction comply with green standards, daily building operations will focus on sustainability.  The building employs the latest technology in energy efficiency and control systems.

• Wipro Campus in Greater Noida - LEED

  A LEED certified building in Noida - a part of the Greater Delhi area. The project was undertaken as part of Wipro's efforts to upgrade its facilities under its EcoEye charter.

Transport and Logistics

• Connected Bus: Connected and Sustainable Mobility

  The Connected Bus is a landmark innovation and a key element of the Cisco Connected Urban Development (CUD) program—a public-private partnership focused on innovative use of information and communications technology (ICT) to make knowledge, people, traffic, and energy flow more efficiently. The connected bus is a physical instantiation of the Connected and Sustainable Mobility aspects of the Connected Urban Development (CUD) architecture.

• Logistics network optimisation

  The CAST CO2 product set is a supply chain modeling tool which, among other things, can model and optimize the Carbon emissions of a logistics network.

• Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)

  The aim of the Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) is to improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location.

• Shiply.com

  Shiply.com is an online transport marketplace that replaces the traditional subscription-based business model of the freight exchange. Aimed at end consumers, hauliers bid in a reverse auction to keep their vehicles full and offer the consumer a low price.

• Smart Transportation Pricing (STP)

  In partnership with the city of Seoul, Connected Urban Development program is implementing a best practice Smart Transformation Pricing (STP) solution.  The aim of the initiative is to create infrastructure that makes traffic flows more efficient and lowers carbon emissions from road transformation.

• Stockholm Congestion Tax System

  To make the charging system work, the SNRA and the city had to find a way to recognize, charge and receive payment from vehicles. With help from IBM and its partners, a plan was devised to charge vehicles as they passed control points on the way in or out of the Stockholm city center during weekday, rush hour times. The city implemented a free-flow roadside system using laser, camera and systems technology to seamlessly detect, identify and charge vehicles.
  

Green ICT

• A Blueprint for Data Center Efficiency

  In 2004, EMC faced explosive growth in applications, servers, and storage in its five worldwide data centers. With space, power, and cooling reaching the limits of the current infrastructure, EMC's IT organization was faced with the prospect of an expensive data center upgrade. This report explores the results of three continuing IT initiatives that have enabled EMC to deliver increased efficiency and reduced costs—without a data center upgrade.

• Capitol Goes Green

  The Municipality of Copenhagen replaced 638 machines with just 32 Dell PowerEdge servers, running Vmware virtualization software and underpinned by an EMC storage solution. They expect to cut IT power costs and carbon emissions by approximately 77 per cent with a scalable virtualization solution.

• Climate Savers Computing Initiative

  The Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) helps participating global businesses, organizations and consumers increase deployment of high-efficiency computer systems and power management technologies that save money, reduce energy consumption and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. More than 500 companies and organizations have joined the Initiative since its launch in June 2007, and thousands of individuals have pledged their support.

• Google's Efficient Data Centers

  Google-designed data centers use about 50% of the energy of a typical data center, through a combination of efficient servers and efficient data centers themselves.

Other

• BT Agile Worker Energy & Carbon Study

  This R&D project has focused on clarifying the benefits and trade-offs of home-working versus office-working, including home energy monitoring of 30 employees' households.

• Connected Urban Development

  The Connected Urban Development (CUD) programme is a five-year initiative developed through Cisco's participation in the Clinton Global Initiative. The Programme is a partnership between CISCO and the cities of Amsterdam, San Francisco, Seoul, Birmingham, hamburg, Lisbon and Madrid.

• E-health Croatia

  The Healthcare Networking Information System represents a comprehensive solution designed for the integration of healthcare processes, information management and business workflows for healthcare organizations, enterprises and delivery systems. It is developed as a modular, secure, and open communication platform that efficiently synergizes common enterprise integration services with healthcare specific application components.
  

• LED Lighting Solutions for the National Theatre, London

  The National launched a five-year partnership with Philips in October 2007 to harness their expertise and apply low-energy LED lighting throughout the building. The Philips Vidiwall, which replaced the Seefact sign on the front of the building, achieved a 30 tonne reduction in emissions on its own.

• Smart Grid, Smart Water

  Combining leadership, lean manufacturing and Smart infrastructure IT tools to develop a culture of continuous improvement to drive significant improvements around water and energy efficiency at a wafer manufacturing facility that consumes 3.5 million gallons of water per day.

• Smart Work Center

  Smart Work Center (SWC) is a landmark innovation and a key element of the Connected Uurban Development (CUD) Connected and Sustainable Work framework. Launched in September 2008 at the CUD Global Conference in Amsterdam, the SWC pilot is a collaborative effort involving Cisco IBSG—the global strategic consulting arm of Cisco—and the cities of Amsterdam and Almere.

• Sun Microsystems’ employee Open Work telecommuting program

  For over 14 years, Sun has had an employee telecommuting policy that allows 19,000 employees worldwide (56% of their workforce) to work away from the office at least one day per week, and the average U.S. teleworker spent 2.5 days per week out of the office.