Authors:
Sonja Klingert
1
;
Florian Niedermeier
2
;
Corentin Dupont
3
;
Giovanni Giuliani
4
;
Thomas Schulze
1
and
Hermann de Meer
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Mannheim, Germany
;
2
University of Passau, Germany
;
3
Create-Net, Italy
;
4
HP Italy Innovation Center, Italy
Keyword(s):
Data Center, Energy-aware, Renewable Energy Source, Smart Cities, Workload Scheduling.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Energy and Economy
;
Energy-Aware Systems and Technologies
;
Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks
;
Green Data Centers
;
Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services
;
Planning and Design Challenges for Smart Cities
;
Renewable Energy Resources
;
Service Innovation and Design to Support Smart Cities
;
Smart Cities
;
Sustainable Computing and Communications
Abstract:
Data centres are important players in smart cities both as IT service providers and as energy consumers. Integrating intermittent renewable energy sources into the local power grid is one challenge in future smart cities aiming at an IT based low carbon economy. The project DC4Cities takes up this challenge by offering a both technical and business related solution for optimizing the share of local renewable power sources when operating data centres in smart cities. To this end, power management options between the data centre and the smart city together with internal adaptation strategies for data centres are introduced. Finally, an implementation of the suggested approach is presented and evaluated in a simulation.