The environmental footprint of IC production: review, analysis, and lessons from historical trends

T Pirson, TP Delhaye, AG Pip, G Le Brun… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given the ubiquity of electronic devices and the urgent need to decrease our footprint in the
context of global warming and planetary boundaries, it becomes critical to better quantify the …

Assessing the embodied carbon footprint of IoT edge devices with a bottom-up life-cycle approach

T Pirson, D Bol - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
In upcoming years, the number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices is expected to surge up to
tens of billions of physical objects. However, while the IoT is often presented as a promising …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the hidden environmental impacts of AI solutions for environment life cycle assessment of AI solutions

AL Ligozat, J Lefevre, A Bugeau, J Combaz - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the past ten years, artificial intelligence has encountered such dramatic progress that it is
now seen as a tool of choice to solve environmental issues and, in the first place …

Unraveling the hidden environmental impacts of AI solutions for environment

AL Ligozat, J Lefèvre, A Bugeau, J Combaz - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
In the past ten years, artificial intelligence has encountered such dramatic progress that it is
now seen as a tool of choice to solve environmental issues and in the first place greenhouse …

Evaluation and projection of 4G and 5G RAN energy footprints: The case of Belgium for 2020–2025

L Golard, J Louveaux, D Bol - Annals of Telecommunications, 2023 - Springer
Energy consumption of mobile cellular communications is mainly due to base stations (BSs)
that constitute radio access networks (RANs). 5G technologies are expected to improve the …

Kaya for computer architects: Toward sustainable computer systems

L Eeckhout - IEEE Micro, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reformulates the well-known Kaya identity to understand computer systems'
impact on sustainability and its total carbon footprint. By making a distinction between …

The environmental footprint of IC production: Meta-analysis and historical trends

T Pirson, T Delhaye, A Pip, G Le Brun… - … 2022-IEEE 52nd …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given the ubiquity of electronic devices and the increasing technical challenges to continue
CMOS technology downscaling following Moore's Law, it becomes critical to better quantify …

[HTML][HTML] Could unsustainable electronics support sustainability?

N Moreau, T Pirson, G Le Brun, T Delhaye, G Sandu… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Information and communication technologies are often considered by policymakers,
industrial stakeholders and scientists as a key lever in the run towards sustainability, since …

MLCA: a tool for Machine Learning Life Cycle Assessment

C Morand, A Névéol, AL Ligozat - 2024 International Conference on ICT …, 2024 - hal.science
The on-going environmental changes challenge the ever-increasing use of digital
technologies. Tools such as Green Algorithms or Carbontracker provide support for …

Implementing a LoRa software-defined radio on a general-purpose ULP microcontroller

M Xhonneux, J Louveaux, D Bol - 2021 IEEE Workshop on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging Internet-of-Things sensing applications rely on ultra low-power (ULP)
microcontroller units (MCUs) that wirelessly transmit data to the cloud. Typical MCUs …