Verdiem Edison 1.0.3166.0http://www.verdiem.com/
Going green is the big thing as of late, and making an individual impact is not hard to do at home, whether it is buying and reusing your own canvas grocery bags, or by replacing all your harsh chemical household supplies with enviro-friendly natural solvents and cleaning substances...
What about power consumption?
As has been advertised, replacing your old incandescent bulbs with compact florescents can help immensely with power bills (heck, not to mention just turning your lights OFF when you aren't in the room!).
What about your PC?
Sure, there is a built-in power management system that Windows provides which allows you to set a time when your display, hard disk, and PC turn off after some predetermined idle time. But...this doesn't take into account for daytime/nighttime hours - nor does it give you a handy-dandy indicator of how much carbon emissions you are helping to prevent/spread (depending on if you are an optimist or pessimist!).
Especially useful for the work/office computer, Edison makes an effort to help you reduce your overall power consumption (and carbon footprint) by allowing you to set up an advanced power management scheme for daytime vs. nighttime hours. This means that while you are "at work", you can tell your computer to turn the monitor off after 30 minutes instead of, say, 10 minutes when things aren't quite as busy.
You can specify your work hours/days, and then have the option to utilize a predetermined power scheme - adjusted via a slider, which has a calculated savings value that tells you how you've affected your carbon footprint and overall power bills per year. Very cool!If you don't like how the predefined power schemes are set up, simply click the 'Custom' button and select your own times (note that Edison won't be able to calculate your overall annual power savings if you do this).
I don't know how the power consumption algorithm works or if it uses an industry standard value, but nevertheless, it is interesting to see how much of an affect a little power management will go with your computer.
Signing up for Edison requires that you fill out a registration form to activate, but otherwise, no obligations!
Also, there is a link on the program that you can use to forward to your IT staff so they can research how to reduce emissions from a company standpoint.
I would love to see an enterprise version of Edison, allowing us network admins to set up a group policy for multiple PCs. It looks like another Verdiem product, 'Surveyor', might be this solution, but probably not free!
I also reviewed another product awhile back called EZ-GPO that supposedly works via Group Policy, but I've not had too much luck with it.
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