RESEARCH
DRAFT OF IEEE POWER CONTROL STANDARD
FOR OFFICE AND CONSUMER ELECTRONICS COMPLETED
IEEE 1621(TM)
Working Group Open to Those Who Want to Help Create an International
Device Power Management Standard
Contact:
Karen McCabe, IEEE Senior Marketing Manager
+1 732 562 3824, k.mccabe@ieee.org
or
Bruce Nordman,
Chair, IEEE 1621 Working Group
+1 510-486-7089, BNordman@LBL.gov
For Release:
Immediate
PISCATAWAY,
N.J., USA, 4 Nov. 2003 Although the power controls
on office and consumer electronics cut billions of dollars off
electrical bills each year, many devices are still not effectively
power managed. A new working group at the IEEE has been formed
to address this, and has developed a preliminary draft document
based on conclusions drawn by the Power Management Controls Project
at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The IEEE 1621
Power Controls User Interface Working Group has begun to turn
the draft into an international standard. Anyone interested in
electronic device power consumption is invited to help create
the new standard. The next phase of this effort will be kicked
off in teleconferences on Nov. 18 from 10 a.m. to noon (Pacific
time) and in January (call +1 510-486-7089 for details). These
initial meetings will consider what items should be added or dropped
from the standard, among other topics.
The new standard,
IEEE P1621(TM), "Standard for User Interface Elements in
Power Control of Electronic Devices Employed in Office/Consumer
Environments," will seek to create uniform power controls
by setting consistent power management terms, symbols and indicators
for all electronic devices.
"The
power management features of many devices are disabled, incorrectly
configured or thwarted by hardware or software conflicts,"
says Bruce Nordman, Chair of the IEEE 1621 Working Group. "Power
usage in most personal computers, for example, is not managed
properly, and there is also great room for improvement in such
items as monitors, printers and copiers.
"The
new standard is intended to reduce confusion and ambiguity about
power controls. For instance, it will limit controls to just three
power states, on, sleep and off, and will use power symbols that
conform to those in the IEC 60417 standard. Our goal is to increase
the likelihood that power controls will be enabled in appliances,
telecommunications devices, space-conditioning equipment and other
electronic devices in the home and office."
The Power
Management Controls Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(LBNL) set the stage for the work on the IEEE 1621 standard. Funding
support for the initial project was provided by the California
Energy Commission through its Public Interest Energy Research
Program.
For details
on the IEEE 1621 Power Control User Interface Working Group, see:
http://eetd.lbl.gov/Controls/1621/.
The IEEE P1621 standard is sponsored by the Microprocessor Standards
Committee of the IEEE Computer Society.
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