Eco Button Auto shutdown for PC's and Laptops

• Saves more Energy than standard computer economy modes 
• Saves up to £50 per year per machine

Did you know?

Computers and monitors can account for half of the electricity used in a typical offi ce. A single monitor left switched on overnight can use the same energy as a laser printer producing 800 A4 printed copies, and don’t be fooled by a screensaver – the computer is still working at full power to run this!

There are some 10m office PCs in Britain and 1.8m are regularly left on overnight or all weekend, according to a recent study on energy wastage. This means that around 1.5 billion kWh of energy is wasted by computers and monitors being left on

– that’s approximately £115million wasted in the UK every year! Convert this into
carbon and we waste around 7000,000 tonnes of carbon because of workers not switching off computers and monitors in the UK (that’s 10% of the UK climate change levy target)!

How does the work?

The ecobutton™ is an illuminating USB device that acts as a reminder and a prompt for the user to press the ecobutton™ at every opportunity whenever the computer is going to be left idle.

This could be from taking a phone call or break, to doing paperwork or going to lunch and meetings where otherwise the computer would normally be left on. This is because people generally do not like turning off their computers because of the time it often takes to restart.

When the ecobutton™ is pressed it engages the computer into energy saving ‘ecomode’. This ensures that both the computer and monitor are set to operate in the most effi cient, lowest power mode available, which actually draws only the same nominal power as when the computer and monitor are turned off! When you need to use the computer again, simply press any key to instantly return to where you left off!