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IPTV and carbon saving

According to a recent investigation into the power consumption of TV displays, average power consumption varies from 211 watts for an LCD screen to 350 watts for a Plasma screen. This puts TV displays amongst the highest consumers of power in a typical business environment. IPTV technology can be used to help reduce your organization’s carbon footprint by switching off diaplays when they are not needed.

Against a background of increasing pressure to reduce energy consumption, it will only be a matter of time before organizations are forced to dig deeper and deeper to find energy savings, driven by a need to demonstrate responsible corporate governance and seize the public relations opportunity to present green credentials in an era of increasing public scrutiny.

Exterity IPTV technology produces savings in three main areas:

• The IPTV management application allows the power status of TV screens to be controlled and programmed so TV displays are switched off when not required.
• IPTV, by its very nature, obviates the need for TV screens in many environments by bringing viewing of live and prerecorded content to a user’s PC screen where they have individual control of what they see on a screen which is already powered for other essential reasons.
• IPTV streaming equipment (which is the equivalent of a conventional CATV head end) consumes little power and invariably less than the traditional coaxial based equivalent. Typical power consumption figures vary from 5W for an MPEG2 Encoder to 27W for a DVB-S Gateway. An IPTV Receiver typically consumes 5W.

And if your strategy is to turn off entire power circuits, an Exterity IPTV solution is ideal as all components are Linux based appliances which resume automatically after power cycling. 

If you would like information about other aspects of how IPTV minimizes total environmental impact please contact us.