The IoT Green Book offers a comprehensive review of Libelium’s advancements and developments in 2023, and provides insight into the future possibilities and evolution of sustainable IoT technology. 🌱
This book serves as an in-depth review of the innovations and developments within Libelium during the year 2023, while providing a perspective on the future potential and evolution of IoT technology aimed at solutions for the sustainability and competitiveness of companies and cities.
Counting on internal expertise and colleagues’ collaboration, our analysis encapsulates the pivotal changes, emerging trends, and innovative solutions in the IoT landscape.
This document is not just a reflection of the Libelium past year’s achievements, but it is also a guiding light, offering insights and foresight into how IoT is set to shape and influence various sectors in the upcoming years. It is our earnest hope that The Green Book of IoT will serve as a resource to understand the current state of IoT and envision its dynamic future role.
Why a Green Book of IoT?
Libelium’s initial IoT projects, featuring Waspmote (2007) and its encapsulated version Plug & Sense! (introduced in 2012), were driven by sustainability concerns, such as detecting fire risks, preventing floods, and monitoring, collecting, and analyzing activities within bee colonies.
At Libelium, we have carried the DNA of sustainability since our beginnings and are convinced that IoT is the perfect partner to measure, analyse, and optimise key processes towards a greener planet.
We aim for this book to be a pivotal reference in guiding policy-making and business decisions related to IoT and sustainability. We offer our knowledge through interviews, editorials, and articles openly to help inspire the development of strategies that integrate sustainable IoT technology in the pursuit of greener and more sustainable growth.
IoT: A Key Tool for Sustainable Economic Development
In an era focused on conscious and sustainable development, the Internet of Things emerges as a catalyst for change. It facilitates digitalization, thus enabling the formulation of strategies and indicators aimed at reducing CO2 emissions.
This is the central axis of Libelium’s Green Book of IoT, an essential resource that emphasizes the crucial role of IoT solutions in promoting sustainability.
With success stories as examples and supported by the knowledge of experts in the field such as Jim Morrish (Transforma Insights) and Sotirios Papathanasiou (See The Air), Libelium launches the first edition of this guide to overcome greenwashing and take data as the centre of any business strategy towards sustainability. Without sustainability strategies, companies will lose their competitive edge.
Success Stories: Driving Businesses and Cities Towards a Green Future
It’s more than just words. Libelium’s commitment to sustainability is evident in our success stories. The Green Book of IoT illustrates how IoT solutions can revolutionize everything from individual businesses to entire cities, underscoring the substantial impact of green technology across various societal sectors.
This book showcases the successes achieved through the implementation of Libelium’s sustainable IoT technology. Real cases where our solutions have made a tangible difference in companies and cities that have already started their journey towards sustainability, serving as inspiration for those looking to integrate sustainable practices into their operations.
For instance,
- The Line, in NEOM, sustainable from its foundations with Libelium’s AI solution
- Environmental monitoring in construction in New Zealand
- Combining tradition and technology: IoT solutions for optimal wine production in Cariñena
- Smart streetlights in Cartagena to measure air quality and noise
- The digitalisation of shopping streets with measurement of foot traffic and noise in the city of Zaragoza
Libelium Committed to Sustainable Development Goals
Libelium is an IoT solution provider helping companies and cities reduce their carbon footprint and be more environmentally friendly, but it is also a company working every day to be the first success story of our technology.
Libelium aligns with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Our goal is to contribute to achieving a climate-neutral EU by 2050 and reduce the global temperature of the planet by 1.5º. This book is also a commitment that the company makes to our employees and environment.
To this end, we have designed our own strategy to contribute to sustainable development goals number 3, 8, 9, 11, and 13.
The Advantages of Sustainable IoT Technology: Libelium’s Approach
At Libelium, we know the enormous role of companies like ours in redefining processes for a more sustainable and liveable future. Our solutions help cities, businesses, and industries make the best decisions based on the most accurate data. We walk a path we have been paving since our inception.
IoT solutions give a comprehensive overview of companies and cities by collecting accurate data and automating resource optimization processes. We at Libelium refer to this approach as ‘datacracy’: a practice of making more sustainable decisions with data at the core.
A key part of datacracy in sustainability is how it helps with openness and detailed reporting. By sharing data about the environmental and social effects of companies and governments, we can ensure more accountability and support the use of greener practices.
A virtuous circle that we must adopt to reduce the global temperature of the planet and continue developing our life, including the economy, on it.
Book Index
- “Data is a language that unites us all”, an interview with Alicia Asín, CEO of Libelium. This piece offers an in-depth look at the world of IoT in 2023, highlighting the advances and challenges of sustainable IoT technology, along with her vision for 2024.
- “A trillion euros for a more sustainable future”, an editorial by Antonio J. Jara, CSO of Libelium, on RegTech and Sustainability: An expert perspective on the intersection between regulatory technology and sustainability, highlighting the role of reporting in ensuring companies comply with European sustainability funding guidelines.
- “A sustainable future enabled by IoT is the only option”, an article by Jim Morrish (Transforma Insights). The Internet of Things (IoT) and environmental sustainability are defining themes of our time. These two concepts synergize very well, both for the planet and for enterprises of all kinds.
- “The importance of IoT ambient air quality monitoring solutions for businesses”, an article by Sotirios Papathanasiou (See The Air) about how IoT has made significant strides in Ambient Air Quality Monitoring.
- “2023, walking on an already paving way”. Libelium’s Sustainability Commitment
- Positive Technology. Libelium’s friends view how technology can provide us with a better quality of life in very diverse areas.
- News
- Success stories