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Going Green

Overview

The world is shifting towards sustainability and energy efficiency. With the rise of green initiatives and carbon emission credits – markets and regulations are the drivers for a massive shift in the world economy. In recognition of these drivers - research is essential to enhance the efficiency of hardware components, device-level integration, systems power management, and future paradigms for power.

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Description:

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Hardware area

  • ASIC low power design
  • Low power processors
  • APIs for power management

RFP: Low-power Hardware

System Low Power Design

  • Architectures for low power
  • Algorithms
  • Protocols
  • Optimizations

RFP: System Low Power Design

Power Management

  • Data Center
  • Enterprise
  • Building
  • Home
  • Service providers
  • Local Government (Towns and Cities)

RFP: Power Management

Sensors for Power

  • Cost effective network enabled sensors
  • Sensor networks including enabling network communication of existing sensors
  • Network-based correlation of sensor inputs into control system responses

RFP: Sensors for Power

RFP: Business Sustainability in the Context of Energy Efficiency