With the COP 21 climate change talks well underway in Paris, Bettina Tratz-Ryan, Research Vice President at Gartner, shares her thoughts on how the Internet of Things (IoT) has a role to play in minimising the impact of global warming. One such way is to use the IoT’s analytical capability to assess real-time data flows on business processes to drive sustainable development, for example, "real-time energy consumption patterns in buildings linked to time of day and people traffic help real estate management to reduce operational cost, greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental footprint". Tratz-Ryan also suggests that sustainability and climate change should be key areas to consider when creating smart cities; cities including Kyoto) and Copenhagen (Denmark (Japan) are already successfully embedding environmental benefits into their smart city programmes by focusing on waste management and recycling, renewable energy and resource efficiency, air quality and reduction of emissions.
With the COP 21 climate change talks well underway in Paris, Bettina Tratz-Ryan, Research Vice President at Gartner, shares her thoughts on how the Internet of Things (IoT) has a role to play in minimising the impact of global warming. One such way is to use the IoT’s analytical capability to assess real-time data flows on business processes to drive sustainable development, for example, "real-time energy consumption patterns in buildings linked to time of day and people traffic help real estate management to reduce operational cost, greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental footprint". Tratz-Ryan also suggests that sustainability and climate change should be key areas to consider when creating smart cities; cities including Copenhagen (Denmark) and Kyoto (Japan) are already successfully embedding environmental benefits into their smart city programmes by focusing on waste management and recycling, renewable energy and resource efficiency, air quality and reduction of emissions.