
Life Cycle Assessment & Carbon Footprint of IIoT Devices and Smart Products
Assess the Environmental Footprint of Connected Products—from Hardware to Cloud and End-of-Life.
Skills you will gain:
About Program:
This 3-day hands-on workshop introduces Life Cycle Assessment for Industrial IoT devices and smart products. Participants will learn to assess impacts from electronics, batteries, energy use, connectivity, edge/cloud computing, and end-of-life using tools such as Brightway, openLCA, CodeCarbon, Cumulator, and Eco2AI.
Aim: To equip participants with practical skills to measure, analyse, and improve the lifecycle environmental performance of IIoT devices and smart products.
Program Objectives:
- Understand ISO-based LCA fundamentals.
- Assess hardware and embodied carbon impacts.
- Model device energy, connectivity, and cloud emissions.
- Evaluate battery, recycling, and end-of-life scenarios.
- Apply Dynamic LCA and sensitivity analysis.
- Develop data-driven sustainability models and dashboards.
What you will learn?
🗓️ Day 1: IIoT LCA Fundamentals & Hardware Footprint
- Objective: Understand Life Cycle Assessment principles and quantify the embodied environmental footprint of Industrial IoT hardware and components.
- ISO 14040/14044 standards and fundamental Life Cycle Assessment concepts.
- Cradle-to-Gate vs. Cradle-to-Grave system boundaries.
- Environmental impacts of PCBs, integrated circuits, sensors, and microcontrollers.
- Critical raw materials and lifecycle impacts of batteries.
- Industrial enclosures, component manufacturing, and production footprints.
- Using open LCA datasets and life cycle inventory databases.
🛠️ Hands-on Lab (Google Colab)
- Task: Build an IIoT BOM Embodied Carbon Calculator to estimate the carbon footprint of sensors, microcontrollers, PCBs, batteries, and other hardware components.
- Tools Covered: Python, Brightway2/Brightway25, ActivityBrowser, openLCA, USEEIO, Agribalyse, and Google Colab.
🗓️ Day 2: Use-Phase, Edge Computing & Cloud Footprint
- Objective: Quantify operational emissions from IIoT devices, communication networks, edge computing, and cloud infrastructure across the use phase.
- IIoT device power consumption and duty-cycle modeling.
- Energy impacts of LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, 5G, Wi-Fi, and Zigbee communication technologies.
- Edge vs. cloud computing environmental trade-offs.
- Data center, cloud storage, data transmission, and network-related emissions.
- Dynamic electricity-grid carbon factors and regional emission variability.
- Battery replacement cycles and their influence on lifecycle impacts.
🛠️ Hands-on Lab (Google Colab)
- Task: Model IIoT operational and digital infrastructure emissions by combining device energy consumption, communication activity, edge workloads, and cloud-computing footprints.
- Tools Covered: Python, Cumulator, CodeCarbon, Eco2AI, and Google Colab.
🗓️ Day 3: End-of-Life, Dynamic LCA & Digital Product Passports
- Objective: Evaluate end-of-life scenarios, integrate real-time operational data into Dynamic LCA, and develop decision-ready sustainability outputs for IIoT systems.
- E-waste management, recycling, material recovery, and disposal pathways.
- Recycling credits, substitution methods, and avoided-burden approaches.
- Device obsolescence, repair, reuse, refurbishment, and lifecycle extension strategies.
- Real-time telemetry-driven Dynamic Life Cycle Assessment.
- Digital Product Passports (DPP) for lifecycle traceability and sustainability reporting.
- Sensitivity analysis, scenario comparison, uncertainty interpretation, and ISO-compliant reporting.
🛠️ Hands-on Lab (Google Colab)
- Task: Build a Real-Time Dynamic LCA Dashboard & End-of-Life Scenario Model to compare recycling, reuse, replacement, and disposal pathways with publication-ready sustainability outputs.
- Tools Covered: Python, Brightway2/Brightway25, openLCA, ActivityBrowser, CodeCarbon, Eco2AI, and Google Colab.
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Fee Plan
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Intended For :
- Academicians and Faculty
- Ph.D. Scholars and Researchers
- R&D Engineers
- IoT and Embedded Systems Professionals
- LCA and Sustainability Professionals
- Product Developers and Design Engineers
- ESG and Environmental Consultants
- Industry Professionals working in smart manufacturing, electronics, automation, and connected products
Career Supporting Skills
Program Outcomes
- Build an IIoT BOM carbon calculator.
- Estimate operational and digital infrastructure emissions.
- Compare lifecycle and end-of-life scenarios.
- Identify environmental hotspots.
- Apply dynamic data to LCA models.
- Generate research- and industry-ready LCA outputs.
