Life Cycle Assessment of Software
Question
How to capture the environmental footprint of a digital service for its whole life cycle?
Info
Assessing the environmental footprint is an essential part of Green Software.
Methods
ECO:DIGIT
ECO:DIGIT is currently a research project that develops a simulation environment to assess the environmental footprint of software using virtualized hardware platforms. Usage data like CPU utilization and others is used together with ecological impact factors to calculate the environmental impacts of the individual IT components.
Methodology Paper on the Environmental Footprint of Digital Services Published
Partial Aspects
Usage
Measure energy consumption of software