Birmingham Children’s Hospital chooses PowerStudio®
14 December 2009
Birmingham Children’s Hospital Foundations Trust has chosen PowerStudio® energy optimisation suite from Certero to help meet carbon reduction targets.
Certero’s intelligent PowerStudio® software enables the Trust to identify daily, monthly and annual trends of computer power across the organisation, and helps set desktop policies in accordance with user activity. For example, a policy can be created to automatically switch off monitors and place PCs onto standby or hibernation when computers are idle, enabling energy savings of up to £48 and 642 kWh per PC per annum to be achieved.
As Birmingham's lead provider of health services for children, the hospital NHS Trust enjoys a national and international reputation in specialist areas including liver transplantation, cardiac surgery and neonatal surgery. Providing one of only two centres in the UK, the liver unit is the designated centre for small bowel transplantation, whilst the heart unit leads the field in congenital heart disease. The Trust also manages city-wide Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
John Lunt, managing director and co-founder of Certero, says, “We’ve specifically designed PowerStudio® to help NHS organisations address their challenging carbon reductions targets as simply as possible allowing then to focus on their core priorities, providing world class health care.”