Corporate Energy Reducing Idea
If you’re part of the corporate world, or any bigger business for that matter, you know that you’re told to leave your computer on all of the time. This is to allow your company’s IT department to push updates to your computer as necessary. In reality, how often does a business do this. I’m pretty certain that it’s not terribly often.
If updates are done at regular intervals, having people leave their computers on once a week for example would be more than sufficient and would dramatically reduce the use of energy and in turn, save the company a boatload of money. But, at times, the company must push important fixes to computers and trying to coordinate this with thousands of employees would be a nightmare. So what else is there?
Wake On Lan (WoL). It’s a feature that is built into almost all motherboards built after 2002. In short, it allows your computer to hibernate, and wake up when it receives a Magic Packet telling it to turn back on. So I propose using something like WoL. The IT department can set all computers to turn off after say 45 minutes of non-use and then wake up when updates need to be implemented, thus saving millions for the company. Not only does this save money, but it also saves the use of fossil fuels which are becoming more scarce every day. A little change like this can go a long way in my opinion.
Have your own idea on how to reduce energy? I’d love to hear it.