LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES
“ We know from our work in the industry that our infrastructure solutions are enabling significant progress on sustainability ,” says Murphy . “ This can be seen in the growth of universal communications and collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic . A lot of businesses required those services to sustain their business , so we knew that our fibre platform would play a big role in sustainability .”
Similar to fibre , Murphy highlights the significant benefits of migrating applications to the cloud from a sustainability standpoint . “ Running your IT infrastructure and operations in a cloud model allows for data consumption to be controlled much better , and for the optimisation and governance of your infrastructure to be much more sophisticated and robust .”
The next level up from infrastructure solutions is collaborating with companies to deliver sustainable solutions that are tied to applications such as smart cities , where the solution is designed with the intent to enable a particular sustainability benefit .
“ Examples would be the use of IoT and sensors to enable : reduced energy consumption in buildings ; reduced water consumption in agriculture ; or reduced waste in manufacturing processes . The solutions that we ' re designing in coalition with our alliance partners and customers are key enablers of sustainability ,” explains Murphy .
“ There are also strategic interventions , aspects that we can influence that might not be directly related to our business . These include the ability to support the decarbonisation of our energy systems with the use of Industry 4.0 technologies such as AI to optimise the use of renewable energy by dealing with the persistent challenges of intermittency and storage .
“ In these cases , there ' s a lot of collaboration that needs to happen with
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