TY - JOUR
TI - Impact of stand-by energy losses in electronic devices on smart network performance
AU - Mandić-lukić Jasmina S
AU - Pantović Vladan S
AU - Vasiljević Željko S
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2012
VL - 16
IS - 4
SP - 1239
EP - 1250
PT - Article
AB - Limited energy resources and environmental concerns due to ever increasing  energy consumption, more and more emphasis is being put on energy savings.  Smart networks are promoted worldwide as a powerful tool used to improve the  energy efficiency through consumption management, as well as to enable the  distributed power generation, primarily based on renewable energy sources, to  be optimally explored. To make it possible for the smart networks to  function, a large number of electronic devices is needed to operate or to be  in their stand-by mode. The consumption of these devices is added to the  consumption of many other electronic devices already in use in households and  offices, thus giving rise to the overall power consumption and threatening to  counteract the primary function of smart networks. This paper addresses the  consumption of particular electronic devices, with an emphasis placed on  their thermal losses when in stand-by mode and their total share in the  overall power consumption in certain countries. The thermal losses of  electronic devices in their stand-by mode are usually neglected, but it seems  theoretically possible that a massive increase in their number can impact net  performance of the future smart networks considerably so that above an  optimum level of energy savings achieved by their penetration, total  consumption begins to increase. Based on the current stand-by energy losses  from the existing electronic devices, we propose that the future penetration  of smart networks be optimized taking also into account losses from their own  electronic devices, required to operate in stand-by mode.