Incollection,
Ambient Human-to-Human Communication
Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Springer, New York, (2010)
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-93808-0_30
Abstract
In the current technological landscape colored by environmental and security concerns the logic of replacing traveling by technical means of communications is undisputable. For example, consider a comparison between a normal family car and a video conference system with two laptop computers connected over the Internet. The power consumption of the car is approximately 25kW while the two computers and their share of the power consumption in the intermediate routers in total is in the range of 50 W. Therefore, to meet a person using a car at an one hour driving distance is equivalent to 1000 hours of video conference. The difference in the costs is also increasing.
