DOCUMENT #:
GSC13-PLEN-28
FOR:
Presentation
SOURCE:
TIA
AGENDA ITEM:
Opening -- Agenda 6.9
CONTACT(S):
David Su and Dan Bart
ICT and Environment
TIA
David Su, NIST
Submission Date:
July 1, 2008
TIA’s ‘Green’ Drive
Environmental Regulatory Tracking and E-Cycling
EIATRACK
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Recently TIA announced its ‘green initiatives’ for the electronics industry worldwide.
TIA President Grant Seiffert stated: “TIA’s investment in green initiatives provides
vision and adds value for our members as the ICT industry continues to respond to
worldwide environmental and regulatory issues affecting business.”
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The initiative includes EIATRACK, TIA’s global benchmark for environmental
intelligence and product-oriented regulatory tracking and analysis, and TIA’s Ecycling Central Web site, with a new state-by-state database of more than 2,000
electronics recycling locations in the United States. TIA is also rallying
communications companies around issues relating to the greening of ICT.
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EIATRACK is a subscription-based Web service, which delivers information on
product-oriented environmental compliance for the electronics sector. The EIATRACK
Team is made up of legal and technical partners that cut across the disciplines of law,
environmental policy and science. Compliance issues are tracked through subject
updates and reports across global jurisdictions.
TIA’s ‘Green’ Drive
Environmental Regulatory Tracking and E-Cycling
EIATRACK
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The legal expertise provided by EIATRACK is worth millions. The cost of
compliance with European regulations alone is estimated to be nearly a
trillion dollars. The cost of noncompliance could cost millions – the fines
that the EU gives to noncompliant companies can be upwards of $50
million.
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EIATRACK features include:
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Over 110 international jurisdictions covered.
Analysis from world renowned analysts and legal experts.
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Content value of over $1 million.
E-cycling Central connects both businesses and consumers with
programs that accept electronics at the end of their product life cycle,
through a free, searchable database sorted by state, ZIP code or national
program.
In leading the ICT industry in the greening of technology, TIA is also
exploring standardization of data centers to reduce their carbon footprints.
Full information on topics monitored by EIATRACK is available to
EIATRACK subscribers. To learn about subscribing, go to
www.eiatrack.com.
EIATRACK
URL- www.eiatrack.com
Data Centers
• US Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in
Environmental and Energy Design (LEED) rating system focuses
on various Divisions of the Construction Specifications Institute’s
(CSI) MasterFormat™ Division List. Cabling is proposed to be
addressed in Division 27 - Communications. BICSI has started an
effort to get the USGBC to recognize Division 27. TIA is
considering teaming with BICSI in this effort.
– Increasing scale of computer data centers makes them major users of power.
Energy cost is a major component of data center costs.
– TIA-942 Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers
• TIA-942-1 (March 2008) Data Center Coaxial Cabling Specifications and
Application Distances
• Standard contains “green” provisions including:
– hot/cold aisles to improve HVAC efficiency
– site selection
Data Centers
-- Future work TR-42
– TIA-942 Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data
Centers
• TIA-942 Addendum 2 – future project.
– Expansion of temperature and humidity ranges will allow for lower
power consumption and reduction of HVAC capacity.
• The scope of subcommittee TR-42.3 (Pathways and Spaces) relates to CSI
MasterFormat™ divisions 1-10. A task group has been established to
consider new “green” projects.
– TIA-569-B Addendum 1: Temperature and Humidity Requirements for
Telecommunications Spaces – future project.
• Will allow for lower power consumption and reduction of HVAC capacity.
– Coordination opportunity with IEEE.
• TR-42.7 (Copper Cabling Components) will draft a liaison to the IEEE
requesting information on pending “green” applications and how cabling
can impact these initiatives. IEEE 802.3az (Energy-Efficient Ethernet) is a
task group already working on the application side – this may present
another opportunity for TIA to coordinate with IEEE.
TIA Standards and the Environment
-- Strategic Directions
• TIA standards allow for more efficient and effective
communications.
– Better communications alternatives means less travel, less use of
energy, less pollution.
– TIA is working to improve and standardize Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS).
• Intelligent Transportation means less travel, congestion, energy use, and
pollution.
– Improved battery performance in handheld and mobile devices, i.e.,
less energy use, more efficient.
• TIA GREEN Standards initiative:
– What standards or projects each TIA group has developed or started
that could be termed “green” in some way?
– How each committee’s member companies participate in other
“green-related” standards activities?
• BUT, standards are needed in other areas too, including data and
measurement standards.
Understanding Our Environment
Measurements, Measurements
Ground, Space, and Atmospheric Optical Measurements
Quantify Earth’s Energy Balance
Kiehl, J. T. and Trenberth, K. E., 1997 Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 197-208.
Sensors are Deployed in Challenging Environments
WMO and ITU Handbook “Use of Radio Spectrum for Metrology”
Sensors are Deployed Internationally
Global Climate Observation System (GCOS) Surface Network
Under the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Data for Our Environment
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Metrics – How and what to measure? Measurements need to be based on units
traceable to the SI System (SI = Système Internationale).
Calibration - Accuracy of sensors and measuring instruments need to be
maintained.
Management and Archival of Environmental Data –
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“Datasets, and ancillary information such as metadata, must be preserved for decades and stored in ways that
promote (1) access as data needs change; (2) reprocessing as errors are discovered or calibration is improved;
(3)integration as new data products, algorithms, and data technologies are developed; and (4) user-friendly access
tools. Climate research problems will inevitably require that scientists use combinations of datasets from many
sources; satellite, aircraft, in situ, and even socio-economic data.”
-- Climate Data Records from Environmental Satellites, National Academy of Sciences
WMO-CIPM Partnership to Facilitate SI Traceability--2002
World Meteorological
Organization (WMO)
International Committee for
Weights and Measures (CIPM)
“...have agreed to work together to ensure that data
related in particular to measurements of state and
composition of atmosphere and water resources, coming
from the programmes organized under the auspices of
the WMO, are properly based on units traceable to the SI
through the procedures of the CIPM MRA and the
Technical Regulations of the WMO.”
Standards Needed for Data Management
• Data representation for interoperability of tools and algorithms.
• Data storage for easy access, processing, and integration from
multiple sources.
• Data archival for long-term observations.