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Is cloud computing really better for the environment?

In theory, cloud computing is environmentally friendly because it uses fewer resources (servers, cooling systems, and all the rest) and less energy if 10 people share an efficiently run, centralized, cloud-based system than if each of them run their own inefficient local system. One hosting provider in the UK told me that his company has...

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Sensor networks: Evolution, opportunities, and challenges

by Chee-yee Chong, Srikanta P. Kumar - PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE , 2003

"... Wireless microsensor networks have been identified as one of the most important technologies for the 21st century. This paper traces the history of research in sensor networks over the past three decades, including two important programs of the...

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