Greentech Lead Asia: Huawei’s sustainability initiatives have prioritized environmental protection requirements during production, service, and business activities, the company said in its annual report for 2012.
To enable sustainable development throughout its business activities, Huawei integrates carbon reduction and environmental protection ideas into products lifecycles and invests in innovations that boost energy efficiency of their products.
Huawei’s Network Energy Product Line provided China Telecom Hubei Branch with a solution of TP-series high-efficiency switching power supply equipment for its subsidiary sites in Wuhan, Huangshi, Jingzhou, and Yichang in Hubei Province.
The event marked the first such occasion the Hubei Branch has adopted new-generation high-efficiency power supply systems on such a large scale. This event also marks the beginning of the widespread application of high-efficiency power supply products in China. As a result, Huawei’s energy-saving solution helped the customer reduce equipment energy consumption by as much as 60 percent, the company said. .
In 2012, Huawei S5700 Ethernet switch was the first switch product in China with a carbon footprint certificate from a third-party certification institute.
Through cooperation with professional institutes in 2012, Huawei referred to industry standards and regulations to comprehensively develop capabilities in carbon footprint analysis of their device products. As a result the company is able to release carbon footprint data for all their device products. It has also optimized methods for assessing the carbon footprint of such devices as mobile phones, mobile broadband products, and home devices.
Huawei has many R&D departments and professional laboratories engaged in researching, testing, and assessing electromagnetic radiation technologies for a variety of products, such as mobile phones, data cards, tablets, fixed stations, wireless access points (APs), wireless routers, and wireless base stations. These departments partner with product security certification organizations in key countries and regions around the world to ensure that its products meet all laws and regulations related to health and safety in each locale.
Huawei developed the first LTE TDD mobile phone of the industry, for which testing standards are not in place yet. The company was granted FCC certification, thereby signifying a product entry permission issued by the country with the most stringent electromagnetic radiation controls in the world.
With its power-reducing technology for hot spots, the LTE TDD mobile phone can automatically adjust the radiant power of its Wi-Fi transmitter or 3G transmitter based on application scenarios. This feature allows this mobile phone to meet the FCC’s multiple legal requirements on usage of a mobile phone as a wireless router.
The wireless APs, wireless routers, and other equipment the company launched for the enterprise market were tested in the most severe conditions to measure the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the built-in Wi-Fi transmitters. The testing results verified that the electromagnetic radiation emitted by such devices is well within safe ranges provided the equipment is used as intended.