FINAL THOUGHTS Warnings from experts such as the NIC are pointing to the need for countries such as the UK to update its existing infrastructure to combat the risks posed by climate change, which include storms, flooding, and severe
technologies such as NB-IoT or Sigfox 0G technology which operates in an unlicensed band, sensors or even satellites to bring about the vision of global coverage – which has the potential to benefit multiple industries crying out for good connectivity, from environmental monitoring to water management and other industries such as agriculture. Although it is evident that serious time, work, and investment needs to be brought about to improve the essential resources on which we rely, the data with which the IoT industry is already so familiar provides benefits in the way of utility management and environmental monitoring. The expertise of IoT companies and their technologies is going to be a key tool in the fight against climate change.
droughts. This may be the ‘new normal’ in a few decades and long-established weather patterns can no longer be relied upon, especially from the perspective of key utilities like water and electricity, but also for environmental monitoring to understand how rising temperatures and sporadic weather patterns are affecting the natural world around us. From the conversations I had with experts operating in the IoT space, all were keen to stress the benefits brought by deploying IoT technologies, whether this is network
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