Sustainability Opportunities with IoT

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In short, IoT benefits are the cake, Sustainability is the icing.
1- LPWAN technology
IoT can have an impact in pretty much any industries and hereafter some simple business opportunities with positive and green aspects:
• Crop management
Implementing IoT into the agriculture sector has many benefits. First off, crop management uses various small and smart sensors that monitor humidity, temperature thus maximising water use with regards to weather conditions. Therefore, farmers may now gain a better overview and control over their lands and consequently reduce fertilizer use as well as optimise irrigation.
• Smart bins
Trash bins that embed smart IoT devices improves waste collection as sensors detect whether bins are full or empty, thus optimising the trucks’ route, not only saving fuel and time but also reducing traffic and pollution. Read the use case and case study made with Brimbank City Council.
• Smart buildings
Buildings are the biggest consumers of energy. Any solutions reducing power consumption brings value. For example, aggregating IoT sensors into air conditioning systems help building managers monitor air quality, predict optimal maintenance interventions and therefore avoid electricity overconsumption or pollution.
• City trees & Bushfire monitoring

With Climate change comes new challenges and new issues. An obvious one is about trees. An underestimated issue is the stress on city trees which are dying, at an unprecedented rate the past 3 years, in the Australian cities (specially in Sydney and Adelaide).

• Ocean floor monitoring

2- Energy harvesting devices and green batteries
When you think that by 2025 there should be 20 billions IoT devices, with most devices battery powered, this is a massive potential hazard to the environment that needs to be addressed now.

3- Recycling

Australia’s government has announced in 2018 new planned waste recycling targets. It provides a national framework for waste and resource recovery in Australia. It outlines roles and responsibilities for collective action by businesses, governments, communities and individuals.

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