Applications and Challenges of Life Cycle Assessment in the Context of a Green Sustainable Telco Cloud

Thomas Dandres; Reza Moghaddam; Kim Nguyen; Yves Lemieux; Mohamed Cheriet; Réjean Samson

Smart City 360°. First EAI International Summit, Smart City 360°, Bratislava, Slovakia and Toronto, Canada, October 13-16, 2015. Revised Selected Papers

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Applications and Challenges of Life Cycle Assessment in the Context of a Green Sustainable Telco Cloud

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    author={Thomas Dandres and Reza Moghaddam and Kim Nguyen and Yves Lemieux and Mohamed Cheriet and R\^{e}jean Samson},
    title={Applications and Challenges of Life Cycle Assessment in the Context of a Green Sustainable Telco Cloud},
    proceedings={Smart City 360°. First EAI International Summit, Smart City 360°, Bratislava, Slovakia and Toronto, Canada, October 13-16, 2015. Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={SMARTCITY360},
    year={2016},
    month={6},
    keywords={Information and communication technologies ICT Cloud computing Life cycle assessment LCA},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-319-33681-7_19}
}

Thomas Dandres
Reza Moghaddam
Kim Nguyen
Yves Lemieux
Mohamed Cheriet
Réjean Samson
Year: 2016
Applications and Challenges of Life Cycle Assessment in the Context of a Green Sustainable Telco Cloud
SMARTCITY360
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33681-7_19

Thomas Dandres¹^,*, Reza Moghaddam², Kim Nguyen³, Yves Lemieux², Mohamed Cheriet³, Réjean Samson¹

1: Université de Montréal
2: Ericsson Canada Inc.
3: Université du Québec

*Contact email: thomas.dandres@polymtl.ca

Abstract

An LCA was conducted on a novel Telco-grade cloud technology. Server cloudification has been found to significantly reduce the environmental life cycle impacts as compared to a non-cloud situation. Improving service quality is possible without drastically increasing the life cycle impacts as compared to the non-cloud situation. In this LCA, a novel methodology was used to model electricity flows during ICT use to better reflect the temporal variation in electricity generation by utilities and electricity consumption by ICT. Nevertheless, numerous methodological challenges remain unresolved and more research is required to improve the LCA methodological framework for ICT.

Keywords: Information and communication technologies ICT Cloud computing Life cycle assessment LCA

Published: 2016-06-29
Appears in: SpringerLink

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33681-7_19