Life Cycle Assessment is applied to estimate the life cycle energy and environmental impacts of five components used in the home automation systems: an electricity meter, an actuator with an integrated current sensor, a web server audio/video, an interface with infrared emitter, a multimedia touch screen. For each component, the impacts related to “one unit of product” (selected as functional unit) are assessed following a “from cradle to grave” approach, including the manufacturing, operation and end-of-life steps. The results showed that the operation step gives a contribution higher than 54% on primary energy consumption and variable from about 54% to about 99% on environmental impacts, with the exception of the operation of multimedia touch screen, which causes from 11% to 60% of the environmental impacts. For this component, relevant impacts are caused by the manufacturing step. The end-of-life-step has an effect on energy and environmental impacts lower than 6.5%.
Cellura, M., Ippolito, M.G., Longo, S. (2014). Energy and environmental impacts of home automation components. In Sustainable building: Results. World SB14, Barcelona, October 28/30th 2014.
Energy and environmental impacts of home automation components
CELLURA, Maurizio;IPPOLITO, Mariano Giuseppe;LONGO, Sonia
2014-01-01
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Life Cycle Assessment is applied to estimate the life cycle energy and environmental impacts of five components used in the home automation systems: an electricity meter, an actuator with an integrated current sensor, a web server audio/video, an interface with infrared emitter, a multimedia touch screen. For each component, the impacts related to “one unit of product” (selected as functional unit) are assessed following a “from cradle to grave” approach, including the manufacturing, operation and end-of-life steps. The results showed that the operation step gives a contribution higher than 54% on primary energy consumption and variable from about 54% to about 99% on environmental impacts, with the exception of the operation of multimedia touch screen, which causes from 11% to 60% of the environmental impacts. For this component, relevant impacts are caused by the manufacturing step. The end-of-life-step has an effect on energy and environmental impacts lower than 6.5%.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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