Green IoT design are choices that are made or implemented during the design process of IoT systems to reduce the environmental impact from the massive deplyment of IoT systems. They are energy-efficient strategies devised to reduce the carbon footprint from manufacturing, deploying, and operating IoT systems (IoT sensor device, networking nodes, data centre or computing device). They are also strategies devised to reduce the waste from IoT infrastructures. They may involve hardware, software, management or policy decisions. Green IoT is basically the effective and efficient methods to design, manufacture, use, and dispose IoT components with minimal damage to the environments.

Reducing the energy consumption from the operation of IoT systems

Reducing the amount of waste created from the deployment and operation of IoT systems (effecient maintenance, re-use, recycling).

Designing of IoT hardware, software, management systems, and policies considering the requirement of minimising the energy consumption, carbon footprint and the environmental impact of IoT systems. One of the design goal should be to implement energy-efficient stratgies to reduce energy consumption and to develope stratgies to minimise the amount of e-waste produce from the IoT systems and infratuctures. Green IoT design techniques includes: Green hardware, green communication and networking infrastructure, green software, green architecture, green software, energy-efficient security mechanisms, and energy harvesting.

Energy-efficient manufactring infrastructure for IoT hardware. With the expectation to connect hundreds of billions or trillion of IoT devices to satisfy the demand for IoT to improve various sectors or industries on the evolving tech-driven economy, the carbon footprint from factories manufacturing IoT devices will be enormous. Also, the manufactured for IoT systems should also be energy efficient.