ADT FIRE AND SECURITY COMPANY
Table of Contents
ADT FIRE AND SECURITY COMPANY3
Background3
Aim and Objective3
Research Method4
Literature Selection Criteria5
Search Technique5
Theoretical Framework6
Investigation/Findings6
Analysis6
Conclusion14
Recommendations17
References20
ADT FIRE AND SECURITY COMPANY
Background
ADT is world's largest electronic security and alarm monitoring company, providing solutions that protect buildings and businesses; from smallest shop to largest retail centre; from workshops to car plants; from underground car parks to tallest office blocks.
Aim and Objective
ADT recognized that IT infrastructure was drawing the significant amount of power to run their office equipment, and that often many computers sat idle as employees were working on other projects, in meetings, or on conference calls. The company realized that if they could power computers down during these periods of inactivity, ADT would stand to save the significant amount of money, and more importantly, energy.
Initially company rolled out the user-dependent power management plan that relied on employees manually powering off their workstations each evening and powering them on again in morning. There were some obvious challenges with this practice that became apparent rather quickly. Some users simply ignored request to turn their computer off at end of day and would leave it running all night. Others tried it initially but found lengthy system start-up times in morning to be disruptive to their workday. They quickly returned to leaving computers on overnight.
Roger Bunting, Computer Services Manager for ADT UK, had heard that energy management software existed that could provide centralized control of the workstation's power management settings. Using such the tool could eliminate dependence on user to turn off their computer by managing power state of all ADT workstations from one central computer.
Research Method
For this study we have utilized the qualitative research approach. Qualitative research is much more subjective than quantitative research and uses very different methods of collecting information, mainly individual, in-depth interviews and focus groups. However, since this research study is a secondary qualitative research the data that has been collected for qualitative analysis has been through an extensive review of literature that has been published in the field in the past few years.
Secondary research is often less costly than surveys and is extremely effective in acquiring information about peoples' communications needs and their responses to and views about specific communications. It is often the method of choice in instances where quantitative measurement is not required.
Literature Selection Criteria
The selection criteria for the literature were twofold: relevance and the year of publication.
Search Technique
Libraries including online databases were accessed to get the most relevant and ...