Carbon Neutrality Approaches for IoT-Enabled Applications -- A Review

TL;DR

This review paper categorizes and analyzes various carbon neutrality methods for IoT-enabled applications, highlighting technological challenges and providing insights for developers aiming to reduce carbon emissions in diverse sectors.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive categorization and exploration of existing carbon-neutral approaches specific to IoT applications, filling a gap in current literature.

Findings

Categorizes different carbon-neutral approaches for IoT applications

Identifies key technological challenges in implementing these approaches

Provides insights to guide future development of sustainable IoT solutions

Abstract

Unlike others, IoT-enabled technology has expanded its base in various sectors, including finance, healthcare, agriculture, energy, and so forth. Tens of thousands of applications and products have evolved in recent years, leading to a constant threat to global climate sustainability due to the underlying carbon emissions. Researchers have developed standalone methods/approaches that aimed to tackle carbon emission problems. However, an article that expresses a list of carbon-neutral solutions and their associated technological challenges is not available. This article explores the carbon emission problems of IoT-enabled applications; and, it categorizes the carbon neutrality methods. The exploratory analysis of different carbon-neutral approaches, presented in this article, can present novel ideas and answers to questions that hover over any carbon-conscious IoT-enabled application developers.