Digital meetings & Audiovisual technology:
Digital meetings are collaborative events/meetings that are held via computerized & digital means, through the internet or an intranet or personal, private network.
Audiovisual technology forms the backbone & medium through which digital meetings take place. It is the technology that enables this possibility, much like a vehicle enables transportation between point a to point b.
Bronx enables provision of technological architecture that supports various collaborative functions & enables productivity, processes, and operations within firms via advanced technology, including audio and video conferencing.
Eco-friendly & sustainable collaboration:
Collaborative events between individuals do not necessarily have to produce the same impact on the environment in terms of carbon footprint, pollution, waste material, and damaging effects. Eco-friendly & sustainable collaboration between individuals is a possibility enabled via technology. The main difference that occurs is that instead of physical meetings the event & meeting is held digitally. This can have several reductions within the carbon footprint, waste generation, and other detrimental aspects towards the environment that arise from physical meetings & events.
At Bronx, the suite of devices, technology forms an irreplaceable backbone & infrastructure within firms, collaborative efforts, including active led & video conferencing hardware.
Digital meetings & reductions in ecological footprint:
Digital meetings can significantly provide reductions in the ecological footprint generated by collaborative efforts purely supported by technology and audiovisual architecture. Sustainability refers to activities that promote a policy of activity, technologies, methods of productions that are reducing the detrimental impact of activity on the environment. Corporations, producers, firms, universities, schools, and households are engaging in eco-friendly practices of living, production, collaboration, creation. Often meetings have a significant impact in terms of their pollution, waste generation. As every activity generates some byproducts, through digital conferences a significant elimination of the byproducts as well as savings can be realized. When considering sustainability & eco-friendly activities, the requisite question to address is thus: What are activities that harm the environment? In what ways are meetings & conferences, differing from digital conferences?
| Activity or facet of consideration: | Byproduct and/or explanation of facet of consideration: | Elimination/reduction via digital conferences |
| Transportation to meeting. | Emissions, carbon dioxide, in case of electric vehicles consumption of power | No requirement for transportation or moving to a physical location. |
| Catering & canteen requirements for conferences/meetings | Can result in extensive packaging, plastics, coverings, & waste that is not biodegradable & toxic to soil, water bodies, biological organisms. | With digital conferences, individuals & attendees can arrange their own canteen facilities.It thus eliminates a vast quantity of requirement towards packaging for food items, and the equivalent garbage & waste that would have been generated. |
| Cleaning & maintenance of conference room | Utilization of toxic, corrosive, Chemicals, extensive use of water, employs staff, & technology for cleaning.Some cleaners are corrosive, acidic. Utilization of technology would increase power consumption contributing to the environmental impact. | No requirement to clean & maintain a specially ordained conference hall or premises. |
| Insurance against potential hazards, damages within the conference hall. | Conferences are elaborate affairs where the organizations often seek to obtain insurance beforehand in order to protect against potential damages & catastrophe’s . | Minimum or reduced form of insurance, mostly cyber/digital |
| Waste: Biodegradable, non-biodegradable: food, metals, plastics, electronics, E-waste, batteries | Overall, physical conferences can generate a substantial amount of waste, some of which may be recyclable and others not. | Digital conferences generate or eliminate majority of the waste attributed to physical conferences. |
| Energy consumption: | Conferences can be elaborate and require a consumption of large amounts of energy. Conference halls are requiring complex HVAC and ventilation systems, as well as possible air-conditioning. The Audiovisual technology suite would also require power consumption and contribute towards overall energy consumed. | With digital conferencing, on-site energy consumption is zero. Digital conferencing thus eliminates a vast majority of the energy consumption attributed towards conferences that require physical meetings. |
| Arranging & providing mass, & large scale accommodation for conference attendees | That can require elaborate bookings & availing of large hotels, living facilities, dormitories, either arranged personally by the attendees or the organization holding the conference.These add to the carbon footprint, waste generated, via engaging in the activity of conferencing. | With digital conferencing, there is an elimination of the waste, carbon footprint and energy consumption associated with utilizing accommodation like hotels, boarding rooms, hostels, etc.It is usually assumed individuals would be attending the conference within the residence of their standard accommodation, eg their homes or permanent residence.Digital conferencing largely eliminates this facet of activity, possibly entirely for majority of the attendees. |
Transitioning between in person to digital conferencing, has been reported to reduce the carbon footprint by 94%.
The difference in energy consumption between physical meetings & digital meetings is a reduction in energy usage by 90%.
Digital conferencing aids sustainability:
Digital conferencing aids sustainability via reducing the footprint generated by physical and conventional methods of meetings. Eco friendly meetings
The environmental impact of social collaboration:
Fundamentally, any human activity that utilizes resources always results in release of products. Many of these products are legitimate waste & pollution.
Meetings require usage of extensive technological architecture, that requires power consumption, use of raw materials, resources, and items that would be discarded upon termination of the meeting.
Collaboration between individuals can be detrimental towards the environment, especially considering the aspects of conumption. asFor meetings that are held at a specific location.
TMeetings can be sustainable & eco-friendly.
Eco-friendly meetings:
Sustainable meetings are meeting designed to mitigate or reduce the impact on the environment of collaborations between individuals. These include the entire spectrum of externalities generated towards the environment and the energy consumpption, raw materials consumed, garbage generated, and emission of greenhouse gases from transportation.
Importance of eco-friendly & sustainability practices, initiatives:
The firms & corporates are deeply committed towards eco-friendly objectives, as it is becoming a part of regulation and demanded by various stakeholders, including customers, it may be a requirement towards their corporate social responsibility, and would yield immense benefits in overall reduction in energy consumption, pollution & waste generation, as well as provide offsets towards logistical costs, eliminating them or providing complete reductions.
Eco-friendly practices that improve outcomes and sustainability are thus also a component of an organizations image and reputation.
Bronx provides solutions for effective conferencing such as an audio system for conferencing room.
Digital conferencing is eco-friendly, and provides remarkably improved elimination of the environmental impact of meetings.Bronx is a dedicated provider and engineering solutions towards effective, highly sought after solutions within Audiovisual technology, such as a chairman conferencing system.