Smart Energy Management and Carbon Emissions Monitoring, Driving the Industry toward Net Zero

As the global drive towards net-zero buildings intensifies, optimizing energy efficiency emerges as a significant business opportunity. AUO Envirotech’s “Smart Building Management Platform” utilizes AIoT to connect systems and equipment associated with energy efficiency, such as lighting, air conditioning, fire protection, energy management in factories and office buildings. This platform enables proactive energy conservation through real-time environmental data collection, carbon emissions analysis and anomaly monitoring, laying the foundation for net-zero buildings.

Known for assisting businesses in implementing smart manufacturing, AUO Digitech has created the “iFEMS smart energy management system”. This system dramatically reduces installation costs through its one-to-many edge power collection devices. It enhances energy management efficiency and facilitates decision-making for improvements through power usage hotspots analysis and management. The system has been successfully implemented in the glass, optronics and metal fastener industries, reducing energy installation costs by 30 percent, cutting manual meter reading labor by 70 percent, with a 50 percent increase in management efficiency.

Renewable energy plays a crucial role in advancing sustainability and achieving net zero. AUO’s Energy Business offers integrated solutions for smart energy management, solar energy monitoring and management, and power plant construction, operation and maintenance. Leveraging its extensive field experience, AUO brings the “SunVeillance” smart cloud monitoring system to solar power plants. This system oversees solar power stations across Taiwan with a combined installed capacity of 2.7GW and boasts management experience involving over 6,000 power plants. SunVeillance employs AI to replace manual inspections, achieving a fully automated operations and maintenance management process featuring anomaly cause analysis, AI-driven dispatch, and automated acceptance, in addition to power generation monitoring and management. Top-tier security measures have also been implemented to ensure continued operation in an effective and safe environment.

Partnering with Social Enterprises to Repurpose Waste Wood, Fostering a Symbiotic Environmental Circulation

AUO is committed to biodiversity, consistently engaging in reforestation and forest conservation across its fabs in Taiwan, aligning with SDG15 (Life on Land). Embracing circular economy concepts, the Company reevaluates the potential of pruned branches. AUO initiated a social innovation collaboration with REWOOD to transform cut branches into eco-friendly personal care products and charcoal handicrafts after drying, processing and kilning, a fine example representing the quintessence of both sustainable forestry and the circular economy, addressing SDG12 (Responsible Consumption and production). By bridging the supply and demand ends of social innovation and business, AUO amplifies the impact of sustainable consumption. This has earned AUO a special award in the “2023 Buying Power in Environmental Sustainability Catagory” from the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Implementing the 3R Principle for Zero Waste and Acheiving a Carbon-Neutral Exhibition through Carbon Offsetting

At Touch Taiwan 2024, AUO’s entire exhibition space, including both the Display and ESG booths, embraces green exhibition objective and integrates circular economy concepts. Adhering to the international standard “ISO 20121 Event Sustainability Management Systems”, and the “Sustainable Convention and Exhibition Guide” issued by the MOEA (Ministry of Economic Affairs), and following the 3R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) principles, the ESG booth minimizes the use of single-use materials by employing aluminum pillars, cane fiber boards, modular materials, pre-used carpets, and LED lighting. For display content, eco-friendly P-Tex prints and digital techniques replace traditional posters, and all hardware materials used for structural decoration and construction are recyclable and reusable, fulfilling the vision of a zero-waste ^(**), green exhibition. Additionally, carbon emissions associated with personnel travel, cargo transportation, food and beverage consumption, venue energy use, and decorations during the setup and event of the ESG booth are accounted. These emissions are then offset using AUO’s own carbon credits obtained through early participation in environmental projects with the Environmental Protection Administration (now the Ministry of Environment, MOE), thus achieving a carbon-neutral ^(*) exhibition.

Drawing on its substantial technical capabilities and operational synergies within the Group, AUO will present a variety of sustainable solutions for this exhibition, including smart carbon management, smart energy management, clean energy, and environmental friendliness initiatives, enabling the green transformation of the industry and creating positive environmental impacts toward a low-carbon and sustainable future.

* This applies to this exhibition alone, where potential carbon emissions are calculated and offset using AUO’s own carbon assets, distinct from the organization’s operations and production activities as referred to in ISO 14064.

** The hardware materials used for decoration and structural construction in this exhibition will all be recycled, and some of the decorations will continue to be used for other events after the exhibition.

• Take a look AUO Touch Taiwan:

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• AUO Touch Taiwan 2024 Website:

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This year, with “Beyond ESG．Infinite Possibilities” as the leading theme, AUO will showcase diverse sustainable solutions at the Green Technology and New Energy Section of Touch Taiwan Exhibition. These solutions include smart carbon emissions management, smart energy management and circular symbiosis. In alignment with green exhibition trends, AUO’s ESG booth has been designed and constructed based on eco-friendly principles

In assisting businesses with implementing smart manufacturing, AUO Digitech has created the “iFEMS smart energy management system”. This system has been successfully implemented in various industries, significantly reducing labor costs and increasing overall management efficiency

AUO’s Energy Business, with management experience involving over 6,000 power plants, offers integrated solutions for smart energy management, solar energy monitoring and management, and power plant construction, operation and maintenance

AUO initiated a social innovation collaboration to transform cut branches into eco-friendly personal care products and charcoal handicrafts after drying, processing and kilning, a fine example representing the quintessence of both sustainable forestry and the circular economy, addressing the SDG12 (Responsible Consumption and production)