This yr at Cisco Stay EMEA in Amsterdam, the Cisco Retailer started a brand new initiative to proceed selling sustainability in our every day operations. The facility for the know-how deployed at our journey retailer was routed via twelve Meraki MT40s (sensible energy controllers that may monitor and remotely management energy). With our units operating 24/7, we baselined the shop’s energy consumption all through the occasion with the assistance of CAE Labs’ WiserWatts: our complete power consumption for the present was 222.01 kWh. WiserWatts screens our Meraki units’ energy consumption and gives power-saving, energy-efficient suggestions. Subsequent yr, we are going to schedule our energy to check power and value financial savings to actively scale back our carbon footprint. Related baselining and consequent energy scheduling will likely be carried out at Cisco Stay World beginning this June.
We equally baselined our energy consumption at our San Jose retailer, with the entire energy consumption for 15 screens operating 24/7 over one week popping out to 429.72 kWh. With the assistance of CAE Labs, we scheduled the shop’s entry factors and switches to activate and off over PoE (Energy over Ethernet), and screens had been routed via Meraki MT40s. We started shutting off the ability throughout off-hours in San Jose, solely permitting screens to stay ‘on’ for 12 hours a day, Monday via Friday: this resulted in our energy consumption over one week decreasing to 154.87 kWh, a 274.85 kWh distinction!
In comparison with the baseline week, scheduling energy shut offs throughout off-hours additionally resulted in power prices decreasing from $64.46 USD to $23.23, a $41.23 distinction (assuming $0.15/kWh in the USA).
As one of many Cisco Retailer’s six core pillars is Sustainability, we closely prioritize decreasing our carbon emissions. Our scheduled energy shut offs additionally resulted in a discount of our greenhouse fuel emissions (GHG emissions) from 204.96 kg CO2e to 74 kg CO2e, a 130.96 kg CO2e distinction.
The Cisco Retailer plans to often observe our power, value, and GHG financial savings with this new initiative, and month-to-month updates will likely be revealed on our Cisco Retailer Tech Lab SharePoint web page (Cisco staff: log in by way of SSO to view). Make sure to verify again in to see our progress!
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