Pairing a Circular Economy and the 5G-Enabled Internet of Things: Creating a Class of ?Looping Smart Assets?
Por:
Miaoudakis, Andreas, Fysarakis, Konstantinos, Petroulakis, Nikolaos, Alexaki, Sofia, Alexandirs, George, Ioannidis, Sotiris, Spanoudakis, George, Katos, Vasilis, Verikoukis, Christos
Publicada:
1 sep 2020
Categoría:
Automotive engineering
Resumen:
The increase in the world's population has led to a massive rise in human consumption of the planet's natural resources, well beyond their replacement rate. Traditional recycling concepts and methods are not enough to counter such effects. In this context, a circular economy (CE), that is, a restorative and regenerative by-design economy, can reform today's "take-make-dispose" economic model. On the other hand, the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to gradually transform our everyday lives, allowing for the introduction of novel types of services while enhancing legacy ones. Taking this as our motivation, in this article we analyze the CE/IoT interplay, indicating innovative ways in which this interaction can drastically affect products and services, their underlying business models, and the associated ecosystems. Moreover, we present an IoT architecture that enables smart object integration into the IoT ecosystem. The presented architecture integrates circularityenabling features by maximizing the exploitation of assets toward a new type of IoT ecosystem that is circular by design (CbD). Finally, we provide a proof-of-concept implementation and an application study of the proposed architecture and results regarding the applicability of the proposed approach for the telecommunications (telecom) sector.
Filiaciones:
Miaoudakis, Andreas:
Hellas Inst Comp Sci, Fdn Res & Technol, Teleommun & Networks Lab, Iraklion, Crete, Greece
Hellas Inst Comp Sci, Fdn Res & Technol, Iraklion, Crete, Greece
Fysarakis, Konstantinos:
Sphynx Technol Solut AG, Zug, Switzerland
Ecole Ponts ParisTech, Circular Econ Res Ctr, Marne La Vallee, France
Petroulakis, Nikolaos:
Hellas Inst Comp Sci, Fdn Res & Technol, Iraklion, Crete, Greece
Alexaki, Sofia:
Ecole Ponts ParisTech, Circular Econ Res Ctr, Marne La Vallee, France
Alexandirs, George:
Ecole Ponts ParisTech, Circular Econ Res Ctr, Marne La Vallee, France
Ioannidis, Sotiris:
Tech Univ Crete, Sch Elect & Comp Engn, Khania, Greece
Spanoudakis, George:
City Univ London, London, England
Adapt Comp Syst Res Ctr, London, England
Katos, Vasilis:
Bournemouth Univ, Poole, Dorset, England
Verikoukis, Christos:
Telecommun Technol Ctr Catalonia, Castelldefels, Spain
Univ Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Green Accepted, Green Submitted, Green
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