ICT and Environment

1. ICT and Environment TIA David Su, NIST Submission Date:July 1, 2008

2. TIA’s ‘Green’ DriveEnvironmental Regulatory Tracking and E-Cycling EIATRACK • 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.” • The initiative includes EIATRACK, TIA’s global benchmark for environmental intelligence and product-oriented regulatory tracking and analysis, and TIA’s E-cycling 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. • 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.

3. TIA’s ‘Green’ DriveEnvironmental Regulatory Tracking and E-Cycling EIATRACK • 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. • EIATRACK features include: • Over 110 international jurisdictions covered. • Analysis from world renowned analysts and legal experts. • 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.

4. EIATRACK

5. URL- www.eiatrack.com

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Sensors are Deployed in Challenging Environments WMO and ITU Handbook “Use of Radio Spectrum for Metrology”

11. Sensors are Deployed Internationally Global Climate Observation System (GCOS) Surface Network Under the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

12. Data for Our Environment • 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 – • “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

13. 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.”

15. 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.