EARTH is a highly ambitious and unique project applying an integrated approach to investigate the energy efficiency of mobile communication systems. It is committed to the development of a new generation of energy efficient equipment, components, deployment strategies and energy aware network management solutions.
Telecommunication networks and in particular mobilenetworks are increasingly contributing to global energy consumption. The EARTH project tackles the important issue of energy saving by enhancing the energy efficiency of mobile broadband systems thereby reducing CO2 emissions and cost of operation. It is a highly ambitious and unique project, applying an integrated approach to investigate the energy efficiency of mobile systems.
EARTH has mobilized a European consortium with serious efforts committed to the development of a new generation of energy efficientequipment, components, deployment strategies and energyaware network management solutions. The project is industry driven with strong contribution by academia.
The partners representing industries, operators, research institutions and universities bring in the full diversity of knowledge and complement each other in a way only a European large scale integrating project can.
EARTH will investigate the energy efficiency limit that is theoretically and practically achievable whilst providing high capacity and uncompromised QoS. The target of EARTH is to enhance the energy consumption of mobile systems by a factor of at least 50%. The project is primarily focused on mobile cellular systems of LTE, its evolution LTE-A and systems beyond, where potential impact on standardization is envisaged, but it will also consider 3G (UMTS/HSPA) technology for immediate impact.
The substantial reduction of network energy consumption will yield large cost savings for mobile operators. Thereby the economical barrier to offer mobile broadband coverage will be substantially reduced. Hence, EARTH will facilitate high speed mobile services to all European citizens including countryside areas which are not reached yet by mobile broadband services. This strengthens European industry and fulfils the growing demands of end-users.
At A Glance: EARTH Driving the Energy Efficiency of Wireless Infrastructure to its Limits Project Coordinator Dietrich Zeller Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs Tel: +49 711 821 34155 Fax:+49 711 821 32185 Email:Dietrich.Zeller@alcatel-lucent.com Project website: www.ict-earth.eu 15 Partners from 10 European countries: Alcatel-Lucent (DE), Ericsson (SE), NXP (FR), DOCOMO (DE), Telecom Italia (IT), Ericsson (HU), CEA-LETI (FR), University of Surrey (UK), Technische Universität Dresden (DE), IMEC (BE), Instituto Superio Tecnico (PT), University of Oulu (FI), BME (HU), TTI Norte (ES), ETSI (FR
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