Green Wireless ICT Innovation Mining

Currently, about 3 % of the world-wide energy is consumed by the ICT infrastructure, which causes about 2 % of the worldwide CO2 emissions. According to Green Touch™ (http://www.greentouch.org/), a global consortium organized by Bell Labs to address green ecosystem in ICT industry, ICT networks could potentially be 10.000 times more efficient than they are today. Green Touch™ aims to create 1000-fold improvement in energy efficiency by transforming ICT infrastructure globally utilizing innovative technologies.

Considering the fact that energy consumption of wireless networks is growing much faster than ICT on the whole, the development of energy-efficient wireless technologies is imperative. The potential candidates are cognitive green radios, intelligent communication protocols, energy-aware networks, advanced smart antennas, and opportunistic spectrum management.

As an indicator of innovation status for green wireless technologies, patents among global market leaders are researched. To find the key IPR holders, a keyword search of the USPTO, EPO, WIPO, and JPO patent data base has been performed as of April 15, 2011.

Among the total of 155 IPR holders, Qualcomm is the leader followed by Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung Electronics, Alcatel Lucent, NTT DoCoMo, Huawei, InterDigital, LG Electronics, and Motorola.

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Obama's Stimulus Bill: A Strategy for Technology Investment

President Barack Obama signed his $787 billion economic stimulus bill in February 17, 2009(Ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009).

Among the $787 billion stimulus bill, total of $102 billion will be dedicated for technology related investments such as broadband communications, smart grids, health care, energy, and R&D for sciences and engineering (Ref. http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/STIMULUS_FINAL_0217.html).

Recent cover story, titled "Can Technology Save the Economy?", in June 2009 issue of Technology Review (http://www.technologyreview.com/business/22452/) expressed a concern over the stimulus bill's technology spending:

1. It offends conventional macroeconomic theory (short-term boon and labor intensive);
2. It could bring confusion for stimulus bill's immediate help for economy with technology's long-term role in creating economic growth.

A strategy for technology stimulus bill might be making roadmap for the detailed investment plan and time schedule for outcomes' role in creating economic growth. A proposal for short-term investment might be building the national knowledge infrastructure (integrated DB for science and engineering articles, intellectual properties, knowledge portals for innovation mining etc), which is labor intensive and short-term boon for long-term planning.


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Smart Grids M2M Monitoring System Patent Landscape 2Q 2009

M2M monitoring system (e.g. smart meter) is one of key technologies for smart grids which is an electricity (energy) delivery network electricity using digital technology to save energy.

Analysis for top 10 assignees in US patents issued before May 1, 2009 shows that Power Measurement is the leader followed by Elster Electricity and Itron.

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Green IT Innovation: National Strategy in S. Korea

S. Korea's "Green Growth Committee"(http://www.greengrowth.go.kr/) said that the first priority for S. Korea's national strategy in the global greenIT innovation competitions is to develop greenIT technologies targeting the international standards from the start.

According to the green growth committee's strategic planning, the S. Korean government will invest 2 billion US dollars annually until 2012 for green technology research and development (R&D).

As a part of the the green growth committee's strategic efforts, a task force for the public-private collaborations will be launched for the development of international greenIT standards and their IPR (essential patents).


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