Ensuring energy efficiency with IoT

Real time environment monitoring is a massive forward leap in tracking parameters for pollution and contaminants which are hazardous for the environment. The monitoring systems that are found in our homes, enterprises and industrial sites can be used for these purposes.

IoT sensors can play an important role in acquiring datasets. These data sets which are acquired from environmental systems can then be analyzed for creating sustainability management solutions. These solutions will not only monitor and report, but also provide a workbench to manage the cause of the issue.

Importance of Data

The increasing amount of data sources of IoT will bring more information on the context in which the sensor is monitoring an environment event or state. The data provided by these devices will give insights for the assessment of the dependencies between user or operator behavior, machine-technology-process operations or external influences that could lead to environmental inefficiencies. The sensors can now also interact with each other, which directly influences management decisions through sharing of real-time events between sensors that are simultaneously validated through cross references with other sensors and third-party data. This can provide efficient environmental management and also provide the ability to reduce complexity of management decisions through the core of the platform. In locations such as warehouses, plants and data centers, the data provided by sensors can assist in the behavior change policies of a heterogeneous group of users. The crowdsourced data of environmental systems can be utilized, along with all the variances and adjacencies together, to enrich the data of IoT sensors with a broad understanding of the ecological and environmental systems.

Role of enterprises

Enterprises should link their monitoring and risk-detecting sensors in building and infrastructure together to reduce operational cost through wasted resources, materials and performance issues. They should also try to link their own data and insights into existing environmental health and safety processes. Compliance and control will benefit because of the opportunities to bring in an automated, noncore sustainability requirement to IT landscapes.

Benefits

If the use of IoT in environmental management is made judicially, the environmental footprint of cities will benefit from the learning sensors and crowdsourced decision making, and the impact could be quite visible. Sensors can detect high air pollution levels in certain areas due to vehicle congestion, validated through traffic sensors, motion detectors and parking sensors, and therefore change environmental management policies by offering car sharing services or changing logistic routes in those areas

As we all know, this environment is ours and we are solely responsible for its betterment or destruction. With the help of IoT solutions, we can do good in our environment and possibly make it better for the coming generations. IoT analytics have the power to bring in a lot of change and it would be best if that change starts from our environment.