How the IoT can help fight climate change
The Internet of Things (IoT) can do more than enhancing our comfort with responsive devices, optimizing industry and logistics, and improving our workspaces and homes with smarter technology. IoT devices have also the potential to slow down the destructive course of climate change, aligning IoT solutions with international standards for climate protection.
We keep witnessing gradual increase in global average temperatures, a growing number of severe weather events and an accelerated melting of the polar ice caps. .
Climate change is real!
The effects of it are felt by many, and with continued growth of the global population and emerging economies, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are only escalating.
We have the urgency to invest in solutions that can reduce the global production of GHG.
The simple, unrealistic answer
If greenhouse gas, produced by human economic activity, is accelerating climate change, can we not just slow down growth or only rely on “clean technology” like renewable energy?
Realistically, the answer is no.
It is not possible to force countries to abandon plans for economic growth or to expect that the global adoption of clean technologies will be fast enough to stop human-caused climate change alone.
So, the question is: how can we enable global economic growth while reducing GHG emissions? How do we "produce more from less?"