TITLE:
Reduced Ecological Footprints of Modern Facilities Introducing the Implementation of Advanced Wireless Technologies, and Human Resources’ Benefits
AUTHORS:
Spyridon K. Chronopoulos, Evangelia I. Kosma, Dionysios Tafiadis, Dimitrios Dimopoulos, Vasilis Raptis, Evaggelos C. Karvounis, Pantelis Angelidis, Panos Kostarakis
KEYWORDS:
Reduced Ecological Footprint, Energy Needs, Wireless Communications, Sensors, Workforce Productivity
JOURNAL NAME:
Communications and Network,
Vol.10 No.1,
December
18,
2017
ABSTRACT: The necessity of lowering the mean power consumption of various facilities, due to the lack of their enormous future energy needs, led to an ongoing advance of various technologies. These technologies have been oriented towards the concept of a Reduced Ecological Footprint. Massive structures (such as building complexes and hospitals) have been redesigned and upgraded; many interior designs have been dramatically altered while new electronic devices are constantly being produced in order to revolutionize a long term perspective towards a “Green Planet” while they exhibit astonishing signal processing. Consequently, an enormous technology already exists which needs to be properly combined to a proposed methodology and to new ideas relevant to systems’ administration through automatic wireless control. This paper intends to reduce the gap between design and realization of the aforementioned research. Consequently, the primary contribution of this research is the proposal of a complete design protocol with minimized defects relevant to Reduced Ecological Footprints of Facilities (REFF) along with its beneficial advantages relevant to providing a healthy and productive work environment. This protocol consists of four main parts which are 1) the main key points-guidelines, 2) its objectives, 3) the know-how methodology for implementation in existing installations and 4) the description of the imminent benefits in workforce/human resources.