The power consumption of a single 5G station is about 4 times that of a single 4G station. With the expansion of 5G network construction scale, the energy consumption problem of communication network equipment has become increasingly prominent. As one of the world's largest telecom operators, China Unicom has a large amount of 5G base stations. In order to reduce energy consumption, and better protect the environment and better implement WSIS Action Lines in order to promote the realization of SDGs, the 4G/5G collaborative intelligent energy-saving management project was proposed for environmental protection.

4G/5G collaborative intelligent energy-saving management project is dedicated to improving the application of AI technology. It positively integrates telecom traffic data with base stations energy data, and network performance data for the first time to achieve network traffic prediction and energy consumption tracking. The project can reduce the contradiction between the growth of mobile communication network data and the problem of high energy consumption. According to statistics, the energy-saving platform saves more than 10% of base station electricity, saving approximately 350 billion kWh a year in china, assuming there are 10 million 5G base stations. What is more, the project can count base station energy consumption, and provide support and reference for government guidance and decision-making. The project is also proved to have the transplant ability, which can be applied in other fields and different communities as it provides a technological model and architecture.

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• China

• Youth
• Older persons
• Women
• Indigenous and nomadic peoples
• People with disabilities
• The unemployed
• The poor
• Migrants
• Refugees and internally displaced people
• Remote and rural communities

The project is dedicated to building a energy-saving intelligence innovation product service platform, integrating basic data, providing platform services for applications in the environment protection. With the expansion of industry application capabilities, the platform can provide integration and technical services. The project is also proved to have the transplant ability, which can be applied in other fields and different communities as it provides a technological model and architecture.

Employing the 4G and 5G collaborative intelligent energy-saving management scheme and platform, every area can model and forecast the change of network traffic, which can guide the intelligent shutdown of base station, effectively improve the efficiency of environmental protection, reduce the energy consumption, and cut the cost of human and material resources. Energy saving and consumption reduction are the long-standing primary needs for the sustainable development. It is necessary to comprehensively study the energy-saving solutions of base stations to promote environment development.

The project can provide intelligent prediction and analysis to meet the needs of traditional industries, which promote traditional industry changes, improve technological growth, increase sustainable employment, increase new employment opportunities, and promote sustainable economic and social development. Specifically, 4G and 5G collaborative intelligent energy-saving management project accurately predict base station energy consumption information to promote efficient use of resources and energy, build sustainable infrastructure, and provide everyone with access to basic public services. In addition, intelligent functions that monitor the operational energy consumption status of companies can reduce human and financial investment in environmental regulation