Enabling Support of Legacy Devices for a More Sustainable Internet of Things: A Position Paper on the Need to Proactively Avoid an "Internet of Trash"

Carlo Alberto Boano

doi:10.1145/3462203.3475883

Enabling Support of Legacy Devices for a More Sustainable Internet of Things: A Position Paper on the Need to Proactively Avoid an "Internet of Trash"

Carlo Alberto Boano^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Institute of Technical Informatics (4480)

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Abstract

Despite the increasing concerns on sustainability issues worldwide, IoT devices are still being designed unsustainably, and often end up as e-waste in landfill after a very short lifespan. This state of affairs is alarming, as we expect hundreds of billion connected devices in a few years, and calls for solutions to help maximizing the usable lifetime of IoT systems. In this paper, we review this problem in detail, and argue that legacy devices using outdated wireless technologies could make use of cross-technology communication to directly interact with newer IoT products, thereby increasing their durability. We also summarize our recent efforts in this domain and highlight how they could help in designing sustainable IoT systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	GoodIT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Information Technology for Social Good
Publisher	Association of Computing Machinery
Pages	97-102
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450384780
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3462203.3475883
Publication status	Published - 9 Sep 2021
Event	1st Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, GoodIT 2021 - Rome, Italy Duration: 9 Sep 2021 → 11 Sep 2021

Publication series

Name	GoodIT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Information Technology for Social Good

Conference

Conference	1st Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, GoodIT 2021
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Rome
Period	9/09/21 → 11/09/21

Keywords

Cross-technology communication
E-waste
IoT
Legacy devices
Obsolescence
SERVOUS
Sustainability
Sustainable IoT
X-Burst

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems

Fields of Expertise

Information, Communication & Computing

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10.1145/3462203.3475883

http://www.carloalbertoboano.com/documents/boano21sustainableiot.pdf

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Boano, C. A. (2021). Enabling Support of Legacy Devices for a More Sustainable Internet of Things: A Position Paper on the Need to Proactively Avoid an "Internet of Trash". In GoodIT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (pp. 97-102). (GoodIT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Information Technology for Social Good). Association of Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462203.3475883

Enabling Support of Legacy Devices for a More Sustainable Internet of Things : A Position Paper on the Need to Proactively Avoid an "Internet of Trash". / Boano, Carlo Alberto.

GoodIT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Information Technology for Social Good. Association of Computing Machinery, 2021. p. 97-102 (GoodIT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Information Technology for Social Good).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review

Boano, CA 2021, Enabling Support of Legacy Devices for a More Sustainable Internet of Things: A Position Paper on the Need to Proactively Avoid an "Internet of Trash". in GoodIT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Information Technology for Social Good. GoodIT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, Association of Computing Machinery, pp. 97-102, 1st Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, GoodIT 2021, Rome, Italy, 9/09/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462203.3475883

Boano CA. Enabling Support of Legacy Devices for a More Sustainable Internet of Things: A Position Paper on the Need to Proactively Avoid an "Internet of Trash". In GoodIT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Information Technology for Social Good. Association of Computing Machinery. 2021. p. 97-102. (GoodIT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Information Technology for Social Good). doi: 10.1145/3462203.3475883

Boano, Carlo Alberto. / Enabling Support of Legacy Devices for a More Sustainable Internet of Things : A Position Paper on the Need to Proactively Avoid an "Internet of Trash". GoodIT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Information Technology for Social Good. Association of Computing Machinery, 2021. pp. 97-102 (GoodIT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Information Technology for Social Good).

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Enabling Support of Legacy Devices for a More Sustainable Internet of Things: A Position Paper on the Need to Proactively Avoid an "Internet of Trash"

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Enabling Support of Legacy Devices for a More Sustainable Internet of Things: A Position Paper on the Need to Proactively Avoid an "Internet of Trash"

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