Tempurity™ System Carbon Footprint

Networked Robotics' mission now includes the analysis of carbon generation in the development and use of our products (footprint) and the carbon effect (should be savings) on our customer's use of our products during normal operations (handprint).  This page seeks to provide carbon footprint information. Since every usage case is different depending on what instrumentation is monitored and the number of monitoried devices connected per unit of our network hardware we must generalize a "typical" or average use of our system by our overall customer base. 

Introduction to Carbon Generation by Tempurity

Our electronics are designed to be run 24 hours a day - usually but not always requiring the power grid for operation. (Outdoor solar panels can be used to power our NTMS devices however this use is rare in our customer base.)  This analysis focuses on electric use levels and thus carbon generation by the use of our NTMS hardware. Note that our other electronics are powered through our NTMS hardware and thus the usage of NTMS power is the overall use by the system.   

Carbon Footprint Technical Analysis

The Networked Robotics  NTMS is a 6 volt device that operates at an average current of about 100 milliamps when an average number (2.75 based on NR sales records) of monitored devices are attached.  We therefore calculate the continuous use to average .6 Watts per hour per NTMS in operation.  Each NTMS is able to serve 4 monitored devices but the average empirical use is 2.75 monitored devices per NTMS. 

Thus the daily electrical use is 14.4 watts per NTMS unit per day

The monthly electrical use is 432 watts per NTMS unit per month

The monthly cost of this use at 23 cents per Kwh average is 9.9 cents per NTMS

The monthly carbon generated is thus .412 lbs (less than a pound of carbon) per month per NTMS

Because each NTMS serves 2.75 monitored devices (empirically) the monthly carbon generated by our system per e.g. freezer is .15 lbs

Compare this to the use of single gallon of gasoline, which releases 47 times the amount of carbon that our NTMS uses in a month and is 130 times the energy that Tempurity uses to monitor a single instrument (refrigerator, ultracold freezer, incubator, etc) for a month.

Thus the carbon footprint for the use of our system is small. 

This analysis does not include the use of at least one computer, the minimum needed to run Tempurity.

This analysis does not yet include the manufacturing carbon footprint of our hardware. Watch this page for updates as we will attempt an estimate of this part of our carbonn generation shortly.