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Tactic: Always on

Tactic sort: Dark Tactic
Type: Unsustainable Pattern
Category: edge-computing
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Title

Always on

Description

Edge devices are by default considered as being always on even when they do nothing. This causes energy waste, but enables real-time services (like in-hospital patient monitoring or cloud gaming) anytime, or at least when needed.

Participant

edge-provider

Related artifact

Infrastructure

Context

Normal operation

Feature

Switching off devices

Tactic intent

Consuming energy to enable real-time services all the time

Intent measure

Uptime of a service (availability) and energy use

Countermeasure

Cloud computing faced a similar problem in the past; countermeasures for the edge may build upon those created for the cloud.

Source

*The Dark Side of Cloud and Edge Computing* by Klervie Toczé, Maël Madon, Muriel Garcia and Patricia Lago (DOI: https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.9422c084)


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  • Contact person
  • Patricia Lago (VU Amsterdam)
  •  disc at vu.nl
  •  patricialago.nl

The Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics (AADT) is an initiative of the Digital Sustainability Center (DiSC). It received funding from the VU Amsterdam Sustainability Institute, and is maintained by the S2 Group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Initial development of the Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics by Robin van der Wiel