HP Labs this week previewed two new research programs aimed at reducing HP customers' energy use, both of which further the company's commitment to advancing environmental sustainability.
    近期，惠普实验室公布了两个旨在降低用户能源使用的新研究项目前瞻，这些项目将进一步加强惠普大力推动环境可持续发展的承诺。

    The prototype HP Labs Home Energy Intelligence Service promises to help homeowners lower their energy consumption through the application of a home management tool that remotely monitors and assesses patterns of residential energy use. Meanwhile, a new, 50,000 square-foot facility in Fort Collins, Colo., is designed as a ‘living laboratory' for research into reducing the environmental impact of next generation data centers.
    惠普实验室的“家庭智能能源服务原型”，旨在通过应用家庭管理工具，远程监控并评估家庭中的各项能源消耗，帮助使用者节能减排。同时，一个位于科罗拉多州柯林斯堡，占地约5万平方英尺的新设施，被设计成为“活的实验室”，以研究如何降低下一代数据中心对环境的影响。

    Tackling energy use in the home
    追踪家里的能源使用

    Announced at the launch of HP's new global Unlocking Your Energy initiative, the HP Labs Home Energy Intelligence Service is a proof of concept for a service that could offer homeowners valuable information about what they can do to save energy.
    在惠普新的全球性活动“释放你的能量”中，惠普实验室家庭智能能源服务，展示了一个概念验证原型，该服务旨在为用户提供关于如何节能的有价值信息。

    The project began just over a year ago with researchers deploying sensors in residential homes that collected energy data for individual appliances and "activity zones" within each house. An HP gateway in each home received readings from these sensors every 3 seconds which it then sent to the cloud in an aggregated data set every 2 minutes. Over 20 million sensor readings were collected in all.  That data was analyzed in real time to produce information – such as family usage patterns and the efficiency of appliances – displayed back in the home via a simple, intuitive interface that offered recommendations the homeowners could act on easily – like shifting usage to optimize costs, or remembering not to leave the TV or lights on overnight.
    该项目开始于一年前，研究者们在家庭居室中安装了各种传感器，用以收集各种家电的能源使用情况，并且定位家庭中的活动区域。安装在每个家庭中的惠普网关，负责读取每三秒传送一次的传感器数据，并且每两分钟将一个整合数据包传送至云计算网络。到目前为止，该套系统已经采集到了超过两千万个传感器读数。这些数据经过实时分析，将得出有用信息，包括家庭能源使用面板，以及家电使用效率，然后传回各个家庭中，以简单易懂的界面，为家庭用户提供建议，包括如何降低能源使用成本，或者提示不要忘记睡觉前电视或某个房间的灯还没有关。

    "Our goal is to turn the discovery of a home's current energy behaviors and usage patterns into a compelling experience, and one that leads to energy savings with an aggressive payback for the investment," says Chandrakant Patel, senior fellow and director of the Sustainable Ecosystems Research Group at HP Labs.
    惠普实验室高级研究员及可持续生态系统研究组主任Chandrakant Patel说：“我们的目标是，将家庭当前的能源使用行为和使用方式模板，转换成一个具有突出功效的体验，使得节能能够带来显著的回报。”

    "We now live in a world where everybody is on and connected, and soon, everything will be on and connected as well," adds Patel. "Given HP's scale and offerings, that offers us a great opportunity to monitor, analyze, and control energy usage." 
    Patel说：“我们生活在一个互联的世界，每个人、每项事物都相互连接。得益于惠普的规模及产品，我们能够监控、分析并控制能源的消耗。”

    A ‘living laboratory' for the sustainable data center
    可持续数据中心：一个“活的实验室”

    HP's new Fort Collins research facility aims to exploit that same combination of pervasive cross layer sensing, data collection, analysis and feedback to trigger actions that can dramatically reduce energy consumption.
    惠普位于柯林斯堡的新研究设施，旨在通过跨层感应、数据采集、分析及反馈的结合，来帮助用户采取行动，大幅降低能源消耗。

    Built in collaboration with HP's Enterprise Servers, Storage, and Networking group, the research center will in part explore how advances in fields such as data analytics and new sensor technologies can better support HP's Data Center Smart Grid offerings. To that end, the facility will study new resource management techniques that, for example, utilize cooling microgrid. This consists of air- and water-side economizers that take advantage of the low humidity in the Rocky Mountains region.
    这个研究中心通过惠普企业级服务器、存储以及网络产品的协作，探索如何部署数据分析及新感应器技术，以便更好的支持惠普数据中心智能网格产品。比如，该研究中心负责研究新的能源管理技术，用以解决微网格的散热。包括利用落基山脉地区湿度低的优势，使用空气及水侧节能装置。

    The center will also house the HP Labs Sandbox, a research environment that is isolated both environmentally and electronically from the rest of the facility and that will serve as a test bed for the broad array of next generation sustainability technologies currently being developed at HP Labs.
    这个研究中心中还安装了惠普实验室砂箱，这是一个从环境上以及能源供应上都与中心其他部分隔离的研究环境，旨在大范围检测部署在惠普实验室中的下一代节能技术。

    "Our clients are seeking sustainable, affordable data center technologies that will effectively change the energy equation," says Tom Christian, principal research scientist of the Sustainable Ecosystems Research Group at HP. "The new Fort Collins research facility advances the development of solutions that address CIOs most pressing needs, including lowered energy consumption and reduced costs."
    惠普可持续生态环境研究组的首席研究科学家Tom Christian说：“我们的客户正在寻求可持续的、经济的数据中心技术，以便有效地改变能源使用状况。新的柯林斯堡研究设施，加速推进了CIO们最迫切需求的解决方案的开发问题，包括降低能源消耗以及减少成本。”