Development of a Power Saving Framework for Use in Large Campus Networks

Many large enterprises are wasting vast amounts of electricity due to computers that are powered-up yet unused for considerable periods of time. It is unfortunate that although the facilities to power management are already available, many administrators are reluctant to adopt power saving features. This paper first highlights the scale of electricity wastage and goes on to consider the issues associated with computer power management before providing a detailed description of the development of a framework that can deliver power savings to large organisations The proposed framework effectively integrates standard network services, standard applications and off-the-shelf power management software together with policies and procedures to enforce power saving measures on individual computers.