Energy-Sustainable IoT Connectivity: Vision, Technological Enablers, Challenges, and Future Directions
Technology solutions must effectively balance economic growth, social equity, and environmental integrity to achieve a sustainable society. Notably, although the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm constitutes a key sustainability enabler, critical issues such as the increasing maintenance operations,...
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| author | Onel L. A. Lopez Osmel M. Rosabal David E. Ruiz-Guirola Prasoon Raghuwanshi Konstantin Mikhaylov Lauri Loven Sridhar Iyer |
| author_facet | Onel L. A. Lopez Osmel M. Rosabal David E. Ruiz-Guirola Prasoon Raghuwanshi Konstantin Mikhaylov Lauri Loven Sridhar Iyer |
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| description | Technology solutions must effectively balance economic growth, social equity, and environmental integrity to achieve a sustainable society. Notably, although the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm constitutes a key sustainability enabler, critical issues such as the increasing maintenance operations, energy consumption, and manufacturing/disposal of IoT devices have long-term negative economic, societal, and environmental impacts and must be efficiently addressed. This calls for self-sustainable IoT ecosystems requiring minimal external resources and intervention, effectively utilizing renewable energy sources, and recycling materials whenever possible, thus encompassing energy sustainability. In this work, we focus on energy-sustainable IoT during the operation phase, although our discussions sometimes extend to other sustainability aspects and IoT lifecycle phases. Specifically, we provide a fresh look at energy-sustainable IoT and identify energy provision, transfer, and energy efficiency as the three main energy-related processes whose harmonious coexistence pushes toward realizing self-sustainable IoT systems. Their main related technologies, recent advances, challenges, and research directions are also discussed. Moreover, we overview relevant performance metrics to assess the energy-sustainability potential of a certain technique, technology, device, or network, together with target values for the next generation of wireless systems, and discuss protocol, integration, and implementation issues. Overall, this paper offers insights that are valuable for advancing sustainability goals for present and future generations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8106058b49e14217ae793a681e82a0cd2023-11-07T00:03:05ZengIEEEIEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society2644-125X2023-01-0142609266610.1109/OJCOMS.2023.332383210285066Energy-Sustainable IoT Connectivity: Vision, Technological Enablers, Challenges, and Future DirectionsOnel L. A. Lopez0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1838-5183Osmel M. Rosabal1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2973-6612David E. Ruiz-Guirola2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2096-8890Prasoon Raghuwanshi3Konstantin Mikhaylov4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5518-6629Lauri Loven5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9475-4839Sridhar Iyer6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8466-3316Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, FinlandCentre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, FinlandCentre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, FinlandCentre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, FinlandCentre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, FinlandCenter for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Oulu, FinlandDepartment of CSE (AI), KLE Technological University, Dr. M.S. Sheshgiri Campus, Belagavi, IndiaTechnology solutions must effectively balance economic growth, social equity, and environmental integrity to achieve a sustainable society. Notably, although the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm constitutes a key sustainability enabler, critical issues such as the increasing maintenance operations, energy consumption, and manufacturing/disposal of IoT devices have long-term negative economic, societal, and environmental impacts and must be efficiently addressed. This calls for self-sustainable IoT ecosystems requiring minimal external resources and intervention, effectively utilizing renewable energy sources, and recycling materials whenever possible, thus encompassing energy sustainability. In this work, we focus on energy-sustainable IoT during the operation phase, although our discussions sometimes extend to other sustainability aspects and IoT lifecycle phases. Specifically, we provide a fresh look at energy-sustainable IoT and identify energy provision, transfer, and energy efficiency as the three main energy-related processes whose harmonious coexistence pushes toward realizing self-sustainable IoT systems. Their main related technologies, recent advances, challenges, and research directions are also discussed. Moreover, we overview relevant performance metrics to assess the energy-sustainability potential of a certain technique, technology, device, or network, together with target values for the next generation of wireless systems, and discuss protocol, integration, and implementation issues. Overall, this paper offers insights that are valuable for advancing sustainability goals for present and future generations.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10285066/Energy efficiencyenergy harvestingenergy sustainabilityenergy transfergreen wireless communicationIoT |
| spellingShingle | Onel L. A. Lopez Osmel M. Rosabal David E. Ruiz-Guirola Prasoon Raghuwanshi Konstantin Mikhaylov Lauri Loven Sridhar Iyer Energy-Sustainable IoT Connectivity: Vision, Technological Enablers, Challenges, and Future Directions IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society Energy efficiency energy harvesting energy sustainability energy transfer green wireless communication IoT |
| title | Energy-Sustainable IoT Connectivity: Vision, Technological Enablers, Challenges, and Future Directions |
| title_full | Energy-Sustainable IoT Connectivity: Vision, Technological Enablers, Challenges, and Future Directions |
| title_fullStr | Energy-Sustainable IoT Connectivity: Vision, Technological Enablers, Challenges, and Future Directions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Energy-Sustainable IoT Connectivity: Vision, Technological Enablers, Challenges, and Future Directions |
| title_short | Energy-Sustainable IoT Connectivity: Vision, Technological Enablers, Challenges, and Future Directions |
| title_sort | energy sustainable iot connectivity vision technological enablers challenges and future directions |
| topic | Energy efficiency energy harvesting energy sustainability energy transfer green wireless communication IoT |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10285066/ |
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