Jan 21, 2026
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Today’s post is by guest author Laurie Berg.
AVI-SPL Vice President, Symphony Product Operations
Today, IT leaders are taking a practical approach to sustainability. Whether you are focused on reducing costs, lowering your carbon footprint, or making smarter environmental choices, many organizations are finding that meaningful progress does not require big, disruptive changes. Simple, well-planned decisions can deliver real results and make sustainability easier to manage across the business.
Technology Consumes Energy
When video conferencing was first available on a mass scale, teams met via remote sessions vs. in-person meetings. Limiting travel cuts down on emissions. However, while that’s still true, people use technology constantly for both remote and local gatherings today.
Conference rooms, meeting spaces, common areas, offices, and the like, and the technology that is deployed, are at the center of team collaboration, brainstorming, and decision-making. But technology is not used around the clock. And when technology is left running when not in use, such as lighting, your organization is consuming energy unnecessarily.
Resolving Issues
Technology has enabled people to do things never thought possible, such as meeting with teams across the globe and sharing and collaborating on documents from anywhere. But, just like appliances at home or in our vehicles, sometimes things aren’t working perfectly. And when that happens, in-house or outsourced technicians may increase an organization’s carbon footprint when you or your vendor must “roll a truck.”
Move Towards Better Energy Savings and Sustainability
Turn off your systems.
When technology is not in use, for example, overnight, scheduled brownouts, or semester breaks, turn the technology off. That sounds easy enough, but when you have tens, hundreds, or even thousands of spaces, that can be incredibly time-consuming.
To help conserve energy, leverage a solution where you can automate the shutting down of technology with ease. For example, turn off the appropriate technology each night at 6:00 p.m. and turn it back on each morning at 7:00 a.m., Monday through Friday.
Match Climate Control to Utilization
When you see how and when rooms are used, patterns start to emerge. Those insights let you automate AV and UC technology and remotely manage or automate climate controls, making spaces more efficient and easier to run. If certain spaces are typically not used until the afternoon, or only for special events, don’t heat or cool them at full output all day, every day.
Utilize Technology and Vendors that Match Your Goals
Technology is being deployed across small and large spaces, from private to public. To ensure your estate is helping, not hurting, your sustainability commitments, purchase equipment that is energy-efficient, long-lasting, and easy to support when issues do arise.
Symphony and Biamp Together Can Help
By selecting Symphony and Biamp as solutions in your standards, you will receive platforms and devices that work with you. In Biamp’s Sustainability Report 2023, the company reported a 17 percent decrease in total emissions in 2022 compared with 2019. In 2022, 64 percent of their energy consumption came from renewable sources. This impacts not only their business but also how they build their technology.
In addition, Biamp technology contributes to indoor environmental quality (IEQ), aspects of green-building certifications.
Automation: a practical approach to sustainability
Symphony natively integrates with Biamp devices, Biamp SageVue, and Biamp Workplace. This enables Symphony to leverage controllable actions within its Automation Workflow to create Shut Down and Start Up processes, alongside other technologies that may be in the same space. This will directly impact your energy consumption and cost savings.
Remote Resolution
You can combine Symphony’s ability to auto-create, auto-clear, and auto-close tickets, create triggers based on the values important to you, and monitor native integrations of controllable attributes. Now, technical resources can be alerted to issues, determine whether there is a siloed issue or a trend across spaces or vendors, etc. Then you can take steps to resolve issues remotely before sending an engineer onsite.
Symphony and Biamp address your cost-saving goals, carbon footprint concerns, and environmental choices together.
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