Apple’s iPad tablet device is helping businesses take on more environmentally friendly habits, enabling them to cut costs and save resources.
Energy usage, environmental auditing and paper reduction are all areas where businesses are seeing improvements as a result of adopting the iPad. Read on for a closer look at each, and let us know in the comments how else businesses can go green with the iPad.
Managing Energy Usage
Lutron’s energy management iPad app
One of the best ways to save energy is to arm yourself with the proper tools for managing it. There are many types of energy managem ent solutions — in the beginning, it was all about buying eco-friendly gadgets and appliances, coupled with energy-saving power sources. But more and more, the focus is on tackling the underlying problem — the overuse of energy — from the get-go.
Lutron is one of the top lighting control design and manufacturing companies, having created energy-saving solutions for homes and businesses of all types, including those that power The New York Times Building. Lutron is now leading the way in how people manage energy control systems from tablet devices.
With the Lutron Home Control+ iPad app ($19.99), home or business users with Lutron’s RadioRA 2 or HomeWorks QS control systems installed can monitor their systems while away from home, control multiple systems, adjust energy-saving preferences, modify time clock functionalities and edit presets. The app is basically a remote control for a user’s lights, window shades, temperature th ermostats and...
