Smart City Clouds

I was once asked by a French colleague of mine if Cloud Computing is ethically justifiable. At first I thought he was referring to Big Data Analytics and possible misuse of personal data, but in fact he was asking if the huge energy consumption of data centers and the impact on the environment outweighs the benefits of Cloud Computing. I was baffled at first because I couldn't really answer this question.

I did some research on this topic and found the solution in the combination of the two areas that I've been working on in the last couple of years: 'Smart Cities' use 'Cloud Computing' to make the urban environment more livable (and this is a huge benefit). This presentation summarizes my findings.

Transcript

1. SMART CITY MICHEL KRÄMER CLOUDS
2. Can Cloud Computing be ethically justified?" "
3. We use about 0.0003 KWh of energy to answer the average search query." " -- Google source: www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392654,00.asp
4. search queries 100 = shirt 1 source: www.google.com/green/bigpicture/
5. One minute of streaming YouTube video consumes 0.0002 KWh of energy." " -- TIME magazine source: techland.time.com/2011/09/09/6-things-youd-never-guess-about-googles-energy-use/
8. 0.0002 KWh/min
9. 4 min 0.0002 KWh/min x
10. 4 min 0.0002 KWh/min 2,356,975,388 views x x
11. 4 min 0.0002 KWh/min 2,356,975,388 views x x 1,886 MWh example inspired by a talk given by Steve Strutt, IBM
12. photo: E.ON Kernkraft GmbH Isar Nuclear Power Plant 1,485 MW
13. It is a confusion of ideas to suppose that the economical use of fuel is equivalent to diminished consumption. The very contrary is the truth." " -- William Stanley Jevons, 1865 The Jevons Paradox
14. photo: Paul Hammond ? photo: epape
15. Smart City Enhanced quality of life Intelligent resource management Appropriate infrastructures Participatory processes ICT-enabled governance source: Ludlow, Khan 2012
16. Cloud Computing On-Demand Self Service Broad Network Access Resource Pooling Rapid Elasticity Measured Service source: NIST 2011
17. On-Demand Self Service A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities [...] without requiring human interaction [...]. source: NIST 2011
18. On-Demand Self Service Self-management Independence Sustainability
19. Broad Network Access Capabilities are available over the network and [...] standard mechanisms that promote use by [...] thin or thick client platforms [...]. source: NIST 2011
20. Broad Network Access Required by citizens and industry Mobile network coverage Sensor networks
21. Resource Pooling [...] resources are pooled [...] according to consumer demand. [...] the customer generally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of the provided resources [...]. source: NIST 2011
22. Resource Pooling Efficient and reasonable use Just distribution Green City
23. Rapid Elasticity Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released [...] to scale rapidly [...]. To the consumer, the capabilities available [...] often appear to be unlimited [...]. source: NIST 2011
24. Rapid Elasticity Urban growth Scalability Resilience
25. Measured Service Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use [...]. Resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported, providing transparency for both the provider and consumer [...]. source: NIST 2011
26. Measured Service Continuous Monitoring Transparency Public Participation
27. SaaS Web portal, apps, public participation PaaS Open Data, services, APIs IaaS Fibre networks, sensor networks
28. Can Cloud Computing be ethically justified?" "
29. CITIES CLOUD PROVIDERS GEOINFORMATICS
30. photo: Paul Hammond ? photo: epape
31. photo: Paul Hammond +
32. Fraunhofer IGD Fraunhoferstr. 5 64283 Darmstadt Geoinformationsmanagement
33. michel.kraemer@igd.fraunhofer.de 06151 155 415 Michel Krämer