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Vodafone Group Plc
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Carbon abatement mechanism
Vodafone’s connectivity enables its customers to switch from traditional wide area network (‘WAN’) to SD-WAN networks in their sites. The solution allows for optimised logistics, reduced on-site equipment as well as remote management capabilities.
The switch and replacement of traditional WAN devices with Vodafone’s SD-WAN cloud-based devices reduces the number of equipment and logistics. Dematerialisation reduces the overall energy consumption of the SD-WAN solution which translates to carbon savings. The remote management capabilities enabled by the cloud-based network reduces the number of site visits required per year. Reduced travel to and from the sites leads to reduced fuel consumption. There is a reduction in on-site equipment for customers as traditional LAN controller devices are replaced with a Cloud-based solution, in turn this results in a reduction in energy consumption. The annual reduction in leakage enabled by streamlined repairs saves water which would have otherwise been lost from the network. There are carbon savings associated with this retained water as less water needs to be processed each day reducing the energy consumed daily. This avoidance or reduction in commuting results in a decrease in transport related fuel and energy consumption and its associated emissions. While commuting patterns vary by country, the avoided travel emissions typically come from the reduced fuel consumption of cars or trains. IoT enabled smart parking spaces with sensors lead to carbon savings by reducing the time spent by vehicles searching for parking spaces and therefore lead to reduced fuel consumption and reduced emissions. The carbon savings are due to efficiencies of operation within a dedicated managed data centre environment, compared to on premises computing facilities. This being primarily from increased utilisation of servers through virtualisation, and improved power usage effectiveness (PUE). This results in a reduction in electricity use per data server, and associated reduction in emissions.
Software defined wide area network (‘SD- WAN’) Global average: 46 kgCO 2 e/site Software defined local area network (‘SD- LAN’) Global average: 239 kgCO 2 e/site Water leak detection 742 kgCO 2 e/connection Working from home (avoided commuting) Global average: 312 kgCO 2 e/license Smart parking 15 kgCO 2 e/parking space Cloud & hosting – Vodafone data centres United Kingdom: 56 kgCO 2 e/VM
Vodafone’s connectivity enables its customers to switch from traditional LAN to SD LAN networks in their sites.
Vodafone’s narrow-band IoT service enabled acoustic loggers (water sensors) allow for real time data to be transmitted to a control room. Detected leaks can therefore be rapidly responded to and repaired. Vodafone’s connectivity enables access to remote working and collaboration platforms. Using these platforms, companies can allow employees to work from home, avoiding or reducing the need to commute to and from their usual workplace. IoT enabled smart parking spaces with sensors identify free spaces for users and provide routing options. This optimises parking operations and reduces the time and fuel consumption wasted searching for parking, leading to a reduction in emissions. Vodafone provides shared centralised data centre hosting services through the data centres they own and manage.
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