CIS 427

IS Plan/Mgmt | DSU Spr’09

Eco-Monitor

The green revolution is hitting our monitors with the new Eizo monitors with “EcoView Sense”.  These new monitors bring a few nice green features that I think could also be used in home televisions. 

The monitors have a motion detector that automatically shut off the monitor  if there is no movement in front of it for over 40 seconds.  I’m hoping that is an adjustable timeframe.  Eizo also offers ambient light sensors that adjust the displays brightness according to the lighting in the room.  They finish off a trio of energy savings by including a power switch that actually turns off the monitor completely, stopping all power from being drawn to it. 

I’m not usually a ‘green’ seeker, but I like these enhancements because I feel they could be used in many of our other appliances such as Televisions, radios, DVD players, and many others. 

Thanks,

-Andrew

2009.04.27 - Posted by | Uncategorized

1 Comment »

  1. More machines thinking for us… but then ten million monitors thinking for us just a couple times a day could save a lot of juice. Curious: could anyone hack into that motion detector and put it to nefarious purposes? And does it have range to tell the difference between me sitting at the computer and me puttering about in the kitchen 15 feet away?

    Comment by CA Heidelberger | 2009.04.28


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