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1 Introduction

2 Product Overview

3 Financial Benefits

4 Environmental Benefits

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On average, an organization of 5000 PCs produces 6.65 million pounds of CO2 annually – the same as 450 mid-sized cars¹

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The U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Standard provides a framework for assessing building performance and meeting sustainability goals. SURVEYOR can be incorporated into your “green building” LEED certification efforts as an energy efficiency solution with a measurement and verification protocol.

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Commercial enterprises and public institutions are increasingly incorporating environmental sustainability initiatives into their core business practices, both to achieve bottom-line cost savings and to be recognized as being environmentally responsible. Verdiem’s SURVEYOR software offers immediate, measurable environmental benefits and is one of the easiest and most cost-effective sustainability measures your organization can implement.

Reduce greenhouse gas emissions (CO₂) by eliminating PC energy waste

With the overwhelming evidence that the carbon dioxide (CO₂) generated while producing electricity is a leading cause of global warming, organizations across North America are taking the initiative to reduce CO₂ emissions by conserving energy. One of the simplest energy-saving opportunities is right under your fingertips: eliminating energy waste in PCs and their monitors. PCs are voracious consumers of electricity, and their energy use is soaring to keep pace with faster processors, more RAM, and power-hungry peripherals. The average PC and its monitor consume 600 kWh (kilowatt-hours) annually¹, resulting in 710 lbs to 1,330 lbs of CO2 being sent into the atmosphere, just to keep that one computer system going.² Multiply that by the power needed to run a 5,000-PC network, and it can reach 6.65 million lbs of CO₂ being pumped into the atmosphere yearly! (For comparison, that’s the same amount of CO₂ produced by 475 midsize vehicles in a year ³.) Worse, according to the Department of Energy, up to 400 kWh—a full two thirds—of that 600 kWh of electricity is wasted simply because most PCs are running at full power when no user is present.⁴

This waste is a goldmine of potential energy and cost savings for your business and of CO₂ reduction for the environment. With Verdiem’s SURVEYOR, your enterprise can tap that goldmine by gaining network-level control over the power settings of every Microsoft Windows-based PC system on your network, so that these systems can be safely put into low-power states (shutdown, standby, and hibernate for PCs, and sleep for monitors) whenever they’re not in use.

Simply by automatically placing PCs into standby mode when users are in meetings, at lunch, or gone for the day, you can effortlessly save an average of 200 kWh of energy per PC—half of the energy that is typically wasted, and a third of the energy that is usually consumed.⁵ That not only translates to lower operating costs for the organization ($15 to $40 per PC annually, depending on local electricity rates), it also means that you’re helping to reduce CO₂ emissions by up to 440 lbs per PC a year. (For comparison, using SURVEYOR with a 5,000-PC network is the equivalent to canceling out the CO₂ emissions of about 110 mid-size cars for a year.)

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The Bottom Line

Installing SURVEYOR is a simple, nearly effortless way for any organization to meet its mandate for sustainability and be a “green”, environmentally responsible organization. Because SURVEYOR reduces energy consumption by a third for each PC, it indirectly reduces the amount of CO₂, a greenhouse gas, that power plants emit as they generate energy for your organization. Using SURVEYOR to eliminate PC energy waste and the associated CO emissions is one of the easiest and most cost-effective sustainability initiatives any organization can undertake.

Annual carbon dioxide emission reduction from eliminating PC energy waste (in pounds of CO₂)

Region	Network Size (PCs)
United States	5,000	10,000	25,000	40,000
Northeast	1,700,000	3,400,000	8,500,000	13,600,000
Southeast	2,225,000	4,450,000	11,100,000	17,700,000
Central	1,525,000	3,050,000	7,600,000	12,200,000
Western	1,225,000	2,450,000	6,150,000	9,800,000

Forward-thinking business and public sector leaders believe that emissions-reduction statutes are inevitable in the United States in the next few years, and they are taking action now. SURVEYOR provides an immediate energy-saving opportunity with a compelling environmental benefit. Unlike most sustainability measures that involve disruptive facilities improvements and long paybacks, SURVEYOR can be installed and be saving energy in hours, and has a payback period of 12 months or less on average. SURVEYOR’s measurement and reporting capabilities also ensure that savings are documented and verified. SURVEYOR is an easy first step to a comprehensive CO₂ reduction program and will help your organization realize the benefits of sustainability.

Ready to learn more?

Contact Trilliant Group to discuss your energy and greenhouse gas reduction objectives.

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1 Arthur D. Little Inc., Energy Consumption by Office and Telecommunications Equipment, January 2002, for U.S. Department of Energy
2 International Emissions Trading Association.
3 World Resources Institute, Car Companies and Climate Change, Earth Trends 2003.
4 Arthur D. Little Inc., Energy Consumption by Office and Telecommunications Equipment, Volume 1, January 2002, for U.S. Department of Energy.
5 Advanced Energy, Demonstration of SURVEYOR Software Implementation and Economic Feasibility, Final Report; August 2004.