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storage requirement as well as extremely low- light functioning cameras which eliminate the need for external illumination.
Smaller carbon footprint. As the green movement gains momentum, camera manu- facturers are looking to the ways they can reduce their own carbon footprints in con- cert with their customers and partners. Some of the areas where green manufacturers are making improvements include:
Transport emissions. Like airports, green manufacturers are choosing more fuel-effi- cient vehicles for their own fleets and nego- tiating with suppliers to lower their carbon footprint as well. Their efforts to streamline the logistics chain, from materials transports from suppliers to product transport to distrib- utors, encompass locating distribution cen- ters as close to markets as possible to shorten transport routes and selecting freight carriers that generate fewer carbon emissions.
On premise energy consumption. Like airports, green manufacturers are modify- ing their own internal operations to be more environmentally responsible and energy effi- cient. This ranges from replacing lightbulbs with more energy efficient LED lighting to installing smart building technology to control lighting and HVAC usage based on room occupancy or other programmable parameters. They also conduct environmen- tal training programs to educate employees on how they can contribute to reducing the company’s environmental impact.
Good Global Citizenship
Green camera manufacturers are also collab- orating with distributors, partners and sup- pliers to ensure compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations across the entire value chain. This includes adher- ing to the European Union’s RoHS directives on hazardous substances and the European Union’s REACH regulation on the registra- tion, evaluation, authorization and restric- tion of chemicals.
They’re also addressing social and ethical questions such as corruption, human rights and compulsory child labor. These green companies work diligently with their value chain to ensure that their products don’t con- tain any conflict minerals (gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten) sourced from countries where their sale would be used to finance armed conflict.
A Long-Term Sustainability Partnership
When manufacturers first introduced net- work cameras to airports the focus was strictly on security: providing better image clarity, more accurate event detection, etc. But even then, there was an under thread of eco-friendliness – from remote access that re-
duced the need for onsite maintenance and incident verification to low lux sensitive that reduced the need for external illumination. Additional video analytics elevated the net- work cameras to multi-duty tools that could simultaneously provide business intelligence to other operating areas beyond security.
As airports continue seeking out partners who share their commitment to more eco- friendly products and sustainable solutions, green camera manufacturers see an opportu- nity to get in on the ground floor by address- ing those concerns directly with the architec- tural and engineering firms who are tasked with developing LEED designs for airport properties. Sharing their camera system de- sign expertise, providing technical documen- tation, offering educational webinars, white papers and other support services are just a few of the ways these manufacturers are help- ing architectural and engineering firms devise waystomoregreenlyintegratenetworkcam- era systems into their LEED projects.
Because innovations in green building ma- terials continue to push the bounds of energy efficiency, the security industry as a whole has had to adapt its own technology to co-exist with those new materials and meet emerging LEED standards. In the not-to-distant future, competing for green projects might necessi- tate a label on every component – similar to the nutrition labels you see on cereal boxes. Manufacturers would have to list the percent- age of each mineral and chemical contained in the product and its carbon footprint. And these labels would be attached to everything from the cameras and accessories to the access controllers, sensors, servers, and cabling.
For green camera manufacturers and other security industry manufacturers, sus- tainability isn’t simply a movement. It em- bodies everything they do and why they do it. It’s a lifelong commitment that begins with product develop and design and continues through the full product life cycle. It address- es everything from the environment impact of the materials that go into the product to the energy consumed during a lifetime of op- eration to how the product can be recycled at the end-of-life. It’s also about reducing their own carbon footprint and that of their sup- pliers and partners as well.
As Kermit the Frog once said, “It isn’t easy being green.” But as airports continue to partner with companies equally committed to environmental responsibility it brings every- one one step closer.
E. Anthony Incorvati is the business development manager for critical in- frastructure and transpor- tation markets for Axis Communications Inc.
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