Green Computing: Sustainable Design and Technologies

The Internet of Things (IoT) has generated increasingly dynamic impacts around the world due to its high tech mechanisms in the scientific discipline. IoT is an intelligent infrastructure of numerous technologies which connects small to large-scale devices to the Internet for the purpose of communication. Alternatively, with the appreciation of such an advancement, there have also been numerous environmental issues raised from the operations of IoT. Green IT is a notion that has been envisioned to reduce, and possibly eliminate the environmental issues caused by IoT through its sustainable designs and approaches. This paper proposes four key research questions that will be addressed to evaluate the challenges in IoT and the solutions of Green IT. Additionally, a variety of literature reviews will be provided that will focus on the research questions proposed for this study. The questions will focus on the challenges in IoT, the characteristics of Green IT, the designs of Green IT, and the process of implementing Green designs as a solution to the environmental challenges. The significance of this literature review and the research questions will help to identify the most common practices and propositions on implementing Green IT. This paper attempts to gather past and modern research studies to evaluate and compare the best solutions for Green IT. It also intends to demonstrate a clear and comprehensive analysis of a combination of relevant proposals by different authors in determining the best sustainable IoT designs. Finally, a comparative analysis will be conducted to identify the best solution of implementing Green IT into the daily lifestyle.