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IoT blog: Sustainability

Welcome to Deutsche Telekom's IoT blog!

Welcome to Deutsche Telekom's IoT blog!

In our blog, our IoT (Internet of Things) experts provide insights into the latest IoT trends, technologies, various IoT devices and applications as well as practical experience reports and best practices. Find out everything you need to know about IoT and stay up to date.

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A stylized factory made of green leaves

22.01.2024

Green IoT: Sustainability by the Internet of Things

The environment benefits and consumers are grateful when companies reduce CO2 emissions. Find out how the Internet of Things helps fulfill changing customer wishes and operate ecologically at the same time.

#International     #Sustainability

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Someone is using a tablet on a truck parking lot.

19.12.2023

13 Digital Solutions for Efficient Logistics Chains

Empty warehouses, rising costs and supply problems are some of the numerous challenges the logistics industry faces. IoT applications can help solve many of them. Here are 13 examples.

#Sustainability     #Transport and logistics

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Infographic visualizes how the IoT alarm system from Spekter and Deutsche Telekom works

18.09.2023

Responding in Time: IoT Heavy Rainfall Alarm System

How a Spekter and Deutsche Telekom IoT alarm system warns emergency personnel and the general public of heavy rainfall and flooding and helps to protect buildings, the environment and infrastructures.

#Sustainability

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WasteShark by RanMarine collects plastic waste and algae from the water surface.

29.08.2023

RanMarine: Precise navigation for autonomous swimming robots

Dutch company RanMarine Technology cleans harbors, canals, and waterways with an autonomous floating aqua-drone. It uses Telekom's Precise Positioning for precise navigation.

#Sustainability

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Installation of the logos at Karlsruhe’s Wildpark Stadium © Declaro GmbH

09.05.2023

LichtWART: Let There Be Light – Sustainable Light

The startup LichtWART’s IoT solution ensures that illuminated advertising and outdoor lighting always shine with the right intensity and malfunctions are spotted at an early stage.

#Sustainability     #Smart Building      #SMEs

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Man cycling on a street with a streetcar in the background

05.05.2023

Spoke: Safe Cycling Worldwide Thanks to the IoT

Cycling protects the environment and your wallet and helps you keep fit, but it can also be dangerous, especially in traffic with cars and trucks. Spoke and Telekom aim to change that – by means of IoT technology.

#Sustainability

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Satellite and cellular masts against the evening sky

27.04.2023

Clever Combo: Cellular plus Satellite for Global IoT

Combining cellular and satellite communication creates globally available connectivity by land, sea and air for many industries and sectors.

#Sustainability     #International

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Cleaner wipes office desk with a cloth.

18.04.2023

Smart Cleaning Cleans Buildings Efficiently and Sustainably

Compromising on cost but not on cleanliness, Soobr’s new smart cleaning solution optimizes facility cleaning. Companies benefit, as do healthcare institutions.

#Sustainability     #Smart Building

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Empty open plan office with ceiling lamps and lighting on

31.03.2023

Saving Energy with the IoT: 10 Examples from Practice

Where and how can the Internet of Things achieve valuable energy resource savings? We take ten practical examples from different industries.

#Sustainability     #Smart Building

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Aerial view of a laden container ship in port

17.03.2023

IoT for Transparent and Sustainable Smart Supply Chains

Many logistics firms are already using digital solutions such as the Internet of Things. But when it comes to things like blockchain or AI, there is still room for improvement. So what exactly are the real advantages of smart supply chains?

#Sustainability     #Transport and logistics

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Office buildings and lamp posts in the central business district of Paris

10.03.2023

Greater Transparency Increases Energy Efficiency

High energy costs, customers who are more environmentally aware and new sustainability regulations currently pose challenges for companies. Transparency of consumption data improves energy efficiency.

#Sustainability

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Monitoring a building’s electricity consumption on a tablet

05.01.2023

How the IoT Helps Smart Meters Save Electricity

The IoT takes metering to the next level, from mechanical to digital where smart meters make electricity consumption more transparent and energy saving easier.

#Sustainability     #Smart Building     #SMEs

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An IoT sensor from Libelium determines how much fertilizer tomatoes are treated with during cultivation

06.12.2022

Libelium: Becoming a full-service IoT provider with connectivity

With its IoT solutions, Libelium helps companies and communities become more future-proof and sustainable. In addition, T IoT from Telekom helps Libelium improve its offering worldwide.

#Sustainability     #SMEs

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A Kässbohrer PistenBully and snowboarders against the background of the Nines

21.11.2022

Kässbohrer: Efficient and Sustainable Snow Grooming

Kässbohrer Geländefahrzeug AG has connected its PistenBully snow groomers via the cellular network to ensure efficiency, transparency, safety, and more sustainable grooming of ski runs.

#Sustainability

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Nachhaltigkeit in der Wirtschaft symbolisiert durch Icons um eine Fabrik aus grünem Papier

18.10.2022

Sustainable Management with the Internet of Things

IoT solutions not only help you to manage your business more economically; they can also help companies to achieve their ecological objectives faster. A new study highlights the sustainable effect of the Internet of Things.

#Sustainability     #Industry 4.0

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Eine überflutete Wohnsiedlung aus der Vogelperspektive.

19.09.2022

Tiny IoT Sensor – Enormous Social Effect

From food waste elimination to weather warnings, the IoT can help protect and safeguard basic human needs, especially in areas where climate change is already in full force and effect.

#Sustainability

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Kran hebt Wasseraufbereitungs-Container von Lkw

01.09.2022

SIWAtec: IoT in Worldwide Use for Clean Drinking Water

SIWAtec water specialists have developed a container solution for the treatment of drinking water on site. The Internet of Things enables the solution to be monitored remotely.

#Sustainability     #International

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Woman rides e-scooter over bridge

07.07.2022

Green Mobility: Precise Positioning Optimizes E-Scooters

The combustion engine will soon be history as the future of mobility becomes more electrical and greener. In this context e-scooters have much potential that precise positioning can further enhance.

#Sustainability     #Servitization

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Woman brings empty bottles to the used glass container

01.06.2022

REMONDIS & Rhenus: Smart Filling Level Checker Uses Laser and IoT

How waste disposal specialists REMONDIS and Rhenus use connected filling level sensors to perfect used glass container and data protection bin pick-up services.

#Sustainability     #Servitization

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IoT streetlight from Omniflow serves as charging point for two e-vehicles

03.05.2022

Omniflow: 5G for Smart Street Lighting

Smart City meets Green Tech. Omniflow’s smart IoT lamp pole provides light, WiFi access, measures traffic flows, and many other services, all powered by sun and wind and using Telekom’s 5G technology.

#Sustainability

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Two hands hold a globe and grid lines symbolize total connection.

20.04.2022

Green IoT: Precise Positioning for the Environment

Precise positioning helps autonomous vehicles to find their way around, for instance. That is obvious. But can the technology be good for nature? A few examples from practice demonstrate that it can.

#Sustainability     #International

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A woman uses Call a Bike, Deutsche Bahn's bikesharing service

06.04.2022

DB Call a Bike: IoT for Efficient Bike Sharing

Call a Bike, Deutsche Bahn’s bike sharing service, uses LTE-M SIM cards and Telekom’s IoT Solution Optimizer to optimize its offering and product development.

#Sustainability

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BlueKit system from D+H Mechatronic and Deutsche Telekom in an elevator shaft

21.03.2022

D+H: IoT Makes Elevator Shafts Energy-Efficient

The benefits of sustainability, cost efficiency and process optimization go hand in hand for D+H and its customers thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT). A smart, user-friendly box identifies energy losses in elevator shafts and helps reduce energy usage.

#Sustainability     #Smart Building

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Sensor early warning system on a beach

09.02.2022

IoT Extreme Weather Early Warning System

Due to global warming, extreme weather events are on the increase all over the world. An IoT solution developed by the U.S. startup divirod using Telekom’s LTE-M connectivity collects water data and issues early risk warnings.

#Sustainability

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Hermes employee delivers packages with a Loadster from citkar

19.10.2021

citkar E-Cargo Bike: IoT Trackers Optimize Last Mile

citkar aims to revolutionize last-mile delivery with low-emission, spacious, weatherproof e-cargo bikes. Green IoT technology from Deutsche Telekom and its partner Fleet Complete ensures reliability.

#Sustainability     #SMEs

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A field farmed with the aid of sustainable irrigation

13.09.2021

Embedded Connectivity for Sustainable Water Use

Smart water meters and irrigation systems facilitate sustainable and efficient water use worldwide. How modern IoT technology helps make it possible.

#Sustainability     #International

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A stylized factory made of green leaves

02.09.2021

Green IoT: Sustainability by the Internet of Things

The environment benefits and consumers are grateful when companies reduce CO2 emissions. Find out how the Internet of Things helps fulfill changing customer wishes and operate ecologically at the same time.

#Sustainability     #International

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Bird's eye view of country road in forest

28.06.2021

Sustainability in Logistics thanks to IoT & Co.

By 2030 the EU aims to reduce its CO2 emissions by at least 55 percent; Germany’s target is 65 percent. Here’s how enterprises in the logistics industry – and not just there – can improve their sustainability by means of digital technologies.

#Sustainability     #Transport and logistics     #International

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Tablet user in a greenhouse controls a connected irrigation system.

21.06.2021

Five Fresh Facts About NB-IoT

In the Smart City, in Industry 4.0 or in logistics, the NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT) mobile communications standard has swiftly gained the upper hand in many areas of private, public, and economic life and is becoming increasingly relevant. We take a look at some interesting information about the technology.

#Sustainability     #International

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Man leaning against photovoltaic system in a field

08.03.2021

Energy for the future: Smart grid business models

Intelligent metering systems and smart grids will ensure that we can depend on renewable energy to provide our electricity in the near future. These innovation are also sparking new business models.

#Sustainability

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Light bulb with a plant as a filament in front of a green landscape.

01.02.2021

IoT: A key technology for green electricity

Solar power, wind energy, micro cogeneration power plants: energy from renewable sources has become indispensable, but it makes power generation and distribution far more complex. How the Internet of Things is helping make energy management sustainable.

#Sustainability     #Network technology

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Three vans transmit data on the move; (above left) two men talking as they look at a monitor screen.

18.01.2021

Drive & Track: IoT Cuts Costs Sustainably

With fewer miles logged, less wear and tear and less fuel consumed, IoT solutions have enabled the parcel delivery service J.R. Company to reduce its vehicle fleet’s running costs by ten percent.

#Sustainability     #Transport and logistics

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People with protective helmets in front of windmills.

30.11.2020

Intelligent power grids: IoT and the energy revolution

Intelligent metering systems and smart grids will ensure that we can depend on renewable energy to provide our electricity in the near future. These innovation are also sparking new business models.

#Sustainability     #International

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A young woman blows bubbles in the park during the summer.

15.10.2020

IoT Helps Combat Fine Dust Pollution in the City

Every year, millions of people die from complications caused by air pollution. But a Berlin-based start-up is improving air quality in cities around the world with moss and the Internet of Things (IoT).

#Sustainability     #Servitization

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Bird's eye view of container port

12.08.2020

Green Logistics by IoT

Logistics has to operate economically, efficiently and sustainably, and to do so it networks entire supply chains to deliver green logistics by the IoT, which is a major benefit for the environment and a good selling point for customers.

#Sustainability     #Transport and logistics

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A panoramic view of Copenhagen’s city center

04.05.2020

Making Europe’s cities sustainable with IoT

How the Internet of Things (IoT) is making European towns and metropolises into smart cities. Europe’s metropolises are global leaders when it comes to using IoT and smart city technologies to improve sustainability.

#Sustainability     #International

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