Sustainable Machine-to-Everything Infrastructure Management: Blockchain-Based Impact Indexing for Distributed Collaboration Systems
Olena Chornovol, Alex Norta · NOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium · 2022
Digitization expansion enables business transactions operating in distributed systems encompassing Internet- and Machine-to-Everything (M2X) economies. Distributed collaboration systems growth comes at a cost of rapidly rising numbers of machines, infrastructure, machine-infrastructure traffic, and consequently a significant augmentation of associated carbon emissions. In order to investigate M2X’s carbon footprint, we design an impact index application layer using blockchain technology of smart contracts to empower a sustainable management of distributed collaboration systems. The impact measurement methodology based on transparent liquid data secures trusted inter-organizational collaborations and supports traceable standardization of sustainability regulation.