Carbon emission by ICTs

By: Divya Aggarwal

Dr. Jyoti KatyalDr. Chandra Shekhar Azad

India has around 337000 cell towers, generally known as base stations.

In India where power supply is discontinuous and un predictable thus making us use diesel generators.

Smouldering of diesel adds to carbon emission

ICT(Information and communications technology)

This is a bit of gear that encourages remote correspondence between user equipment such as cellular telephone, WLL telephone, PC’s and a system called BTS.

BTS(Base transceiver station)

There are various telecom operators under BTS both in urban and rural areas such as:

Aircel Limited Reliance Communication Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Idea Cellular Loop Mobile Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Reliance Communication Tata Teleservices Vodafone India

Telecom operators:

The carbon footprint released by BTS as compared to other services are:

There are various measures taken to conserve energy and to deplete the carbon emitted from the BTS towers and mobile such as:

using recyclable materials, staggering their lighting frameworks creating work-at-home projects where representatives get to

be "remote workers.“ equipment selection network access testing network planning engineering design network management Maintenance.

And various other methods which have been mentioned in the report...

Energy conservation:

•Number of BTS in urban= 0.3* No. Of BTS in the telecom circle

•Number of BTS in rural= 0.7* No. Of BTS in telecom circle

•Number of Telecom Towers = Number of BTS/1.6

•Number of urban telecom= Number of telecom tower*0.3

•Number of rural telecom= Number of telecom tower*0.7

•Annual Electricity consumed in Urban= (3*20*365*No. Of urban BTS)/1000•Annual Electricity consumed in Rural= (3*16*365*No of rural BTS)/1000•Diesel consumption in urban (litre) = 4*4*365*urban telecom tower•Diesel consumption in rural (litre) = =4*8*365*rural telecom tower

Electricity and diesel from BTS

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Many companies have already calculated there carbon emissions and set targets to reduce them by switching to renewable energy resources. A few companies are going in far off areas only with the renewable energy based power supply. If all these initiatives in the telecom market can be brought under one umbrella, to earn additional benefits, it can bring in billions of dollars in the Indian economy. Companies are also increasingly looking to enable positive carbon impacts for their customers and society whilst reducing the direct carbon emissions associated with ICT.

Conclusion:

Thank you...

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Emissions-CDM-Project-Opportunities.pdf Critical_pollutant_emissions_from_the_Indian_telecom

_network.pdf CEA_lgbr_report.pdf MobileCarbonFootprint.pdf NTP_japan.pdf Reliance.pdf Souchon_6_233_energy_demand_for_ict_infra.pdf WireIE_Carbon_Reduction_Technologies.pdf

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