Table 1 IoT Enabling technologies and their greening strategies
From: Greening emerging IT technologies: techniques and practices
IoT Enabler | Type | Communication Paradigm | Data transfer | Power source | Life-time | Greening strategies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RFID | Active tags | Two ways | Low | Battery | ≤5 | Energy-efficient algorithms and protocols |
Passive tags | One way | Very low | Harvested | ∞ | ||
Sensing network | Smart object | Central | Low | Battery | ≤5 | Sleep wake-up, data reduction mechanisms |
Mobile sensing | P2P | High | Battery | ≤2 | ||
Internet technologies | Cloud | Client/Server | Very low | Grid | ≤10y r s | Turn off unrequired facilities, Minimize data path length |
Future internet | Distributed | Very low | Grid | ∞ |