Enabling Effects of Wi-Fi Module－A Case Study of Telemedicine

• Main Authors: Kuei-tzu Yang, 楊桂慈
• Other Authors: Allen H. Hu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bt65v7

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 環境工程與管理研究所 === 106 === Wi-Fi is not only one of the major technologies for connecting mobile phones, tablets and computers but also widely used in agriculture, medical care, warehousing, logistics and personal home appliances. With the trend of many industries combining ICT technologies, we can see the ICT impact from personal life to society as a whole. There are many studies, which is about network energy consumption, and conduct related research, but the enabling effects of providing online services to replace traditional product are still rarely discussed. In view of the past, the studies often focused on exposing product environmental impact information. This study takes the effect of Wi-Fi module products providing network services indirectly into the medical industry as an example. Through the system dynamics software STELLA to construct the carbon emission model of traditional medical services and telemedicine services and to simulate the carbon emissions that can be reduced by telemedicine services in place of traditional medical services under different scenarios. Finally, the benefits are allocated to Wi-Fi module products by its economic value. The scenarios are mainly divided into baseline, telemedicine high adoption rate and the low adoption and simulate the demand for medical services and the adoption rate of telemedicine in the outlying islands from 2007 to 2036, and further estimate its carbon emissions. The simulation results show that the traditional medical carbon emission mainly comes from the patient transportation stage, and the telemedicine carbon emission mainly comes from the network transmission stage, and the telemedicine can reduce average 50.8 kg CO2e per person. In the baseline scenario, total carbon reduction in telemedicine reached 16,234 metric tons; in the context of high and low adoption rates of telemedicine, total carbon reductions were 19,161 metric tons and 13,140 metric tons, respectively. The Wi-Fi modules enabling effect by the economic allocation approach is a carbon reduction effect of 202 metric tons. With the situation of different telemedicine adoption rates, its enabling effect can reduce carbon emissions by up to 238 metric tons, with a minimum reduction of 164 metric tons.