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IoT project will assess impact of climate change on forests, and inform UK policymaking

Envirotec Magazine

A trial is underway in forests in Surrey and Northumberland to assess the potential for Internet of Things (IoT) technology to monitor tree growth and the impacts of environmental change on the UK’s forests. Specialist sensors have been attached to trees in two forests and are connected via Vodafone’s Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) network.

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Matter smart home IoT standard launched

Smart Energy International

Among the features are security policies and processes using blockchain technology to validate device certification and provenance in order to help to ensure users are connecting authentic, certified and up-to-date devices to their homes and networks. Have you read?

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

Government policies that stimulated the growth of solar accounted for 60 percent of that price decline. Even without those policies — they soon expire — renewables are more than competitive against fossil fuels. The economics of solar and wind including storage costs are quickly undercutting the economics of oil as a prime mover.

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Managing information flow

Envirotec Magazine

Built on the Microsoft Azure cloud-computing platform, InfoTiles aggregates real-time streamed data from internet of things (IoT) sensors through complex monitoring networks, connecting water and wastewater maintenance equipment, and integrating supervisory control & data acquisition (SCADA) systems.

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How two companies are building systems to scale reuse, which is vital for a circular economy

GreenBiz

In 2017, when LimeLoop, an IoT solution for sustainable e-commerce shipping logistics, started, it was in response to the amount of waste caused by e-commerce. It's easy to use and easy to sanitize. On the B2B side of commerce, there’s another opportunity for reuse. Everything goes somewhere.

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Ed’s note: The future of edge computing in Europe

Smart Energy International

Especially for what concerns the energy sector and grid edge technologies and infrastructure, the EU needs to create platforms for IoT and the edge and it needs to make them open and community-driven. The Act is going to focus on the creation of an IoT-supported energy system with the end consumer/prosumer in mind. Have you read?

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Vodafone teams up with Defra for digital tree monitoring trial

Business Green

The project will see Internet of Things (IoT) sensors provided by Vodafone attached to trees in forests in Sussex and Northumbria, with the aim of collecting "vast amounts of data" to gauge how temperature, humidity and soil moisture impacts tree growth, according to Anne Sheehan, director of Vodafone Business UK.

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