Séminaire Numerics : Life cycle assessment of ICT in practice – Comparison between desktop and single-board computers in a higher education context.

After a quick overview of the general principles of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), we will investigate how such a tool can be helpful to compare the environmental impact of different architectures of computer systems used for teaching purposes in higher education. In particular, we will see how to perform the life cycle inventory of the systems under studies from a practical standpoint. We will then review the main results from the life cycle impact assessment and discuss them as well as the limitations of this study.