Savings
lightapp offers great savings on hardware, ICT support and electricity, allowing schools to allocate more of their budget to additional workstations or curriculum software. Because we charge a set price per student per year you never have to worry about exceeding a projected budget and unexpected costs.
lightapp doesn't just help you save money, it contributes to saving the environment.
How do we help schools achieve these savings?
Hardware
Hardware costs are reduced by 50%-90%. To access lightapp, schools can either:
- use existing PCs (even ones due for upgrade, achieving the same level of functionality as if they were new), or
- each workstation can be equipped with our inexpensive lightapp hardware that connects the screen to broadband, and typically needs replacing only once in every 19 years.
ICT Support
Support and maintenance can take up 60% of your ICT budget (see Becta Report), and our case study demonstrates how lightapp reduces ICT support by as much as 80%. That means you save 48% of your total ICT budget, by simply reducing ICT maintenance costs.
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Electricity
Using lightapp devices rather than high-spec PCs can save up to 96% electricity with the resultant signficant reduction in your bills.
Saving the Environment
Saving electricity means saving the environment. According to our calculations, by using lightapp with our hardware on approximately 224 workstations (the average number in a secondary school), a school can achieve the equivalent carbon output reduction of taking eight cars off the road for a year.
Even if you re-use your existing PCs, by extending their life you reduce cyber warming by minimising waste in hardware production and disposal.
Full Details on Achieving Cost Savings
Comprehensive data on how these savings are achieved are available in our white paper, “Innovative technology to transform learning and children's services”. See our Resources page for details on how to get a copy of this document.
