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Greening the Future: Green Internet of Things (G-IoT) as a Key Technological Enabler of Sustainable Development

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New technologies and the revolution of Internet of Things (IoT) fuel innovation in every area of science and human life, providing anytime and anywhere access to information in novel ways and contexts and brings people, processes, data and things as well as places, organizations and facilities together in unprecedented ways. Despite the numerous benefits IoT offers, manufacturing, distribution, and utilization of IoT products and systems are the resource and energy intensive and accompanied by escalating volumes of solid and toxic waste. In order to minimize the potentially negative influence of technological development on human and environment, it is necessary to successfully deal with challenges such as increased energy usage, waste and greenhouse gas emissions, and the consumption of natural and non-renewable raw materials. This is the reason for moving towards a greener future, where technology, IoT and the economy will be substituted with green technology, green IoT and the green economy, respectively, what implies a whole world of potentially remarkable improvements of human well-being and hence contributes to the sustainable smart world. This chapter presents an analysis of the significance of greening technologies’ processes in sustainable development, exploring the principles and roles of G-IoT in the progress of the society through the examination of its potential to improve the quality of life, environment, economic growth and green global modernization. It has been shown that the G-IoT holds the potential to transform and bring numerous benefits (among environment protection, customer satisfaction, and increased profit are the most significant) in diverse sectors using the latest technology approaches and solutions alongside eliminated or minimized the negative impact on the human health and the environment.

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Maksimovic, M. (2018). Greening the Future: Green Internet of Things (G-IoT) as a Key Technological Enabler of Sustainable Development. In: Dey, N., Hassanien, A., Bhatt, C., Ashour, A., Satapathy, S. (eds) Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics Toward Next-Generation Intelligence. Studies in Big Data, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60435-0_12

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