Technological Waste Management Strategy to Support Economies of Precision

Abstract

The Digital Transformation for the advent of precision economic dynamics is based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Therefore, the components of such economic models can have a digital representation for both monitoring and tracking within the Internet of Things (IoT).  The Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) support the  concept of IoT, where the number of interconnected entities defines the quality of information as well as the quality of decisions that can be made in a circular economy’s environments.  Given the reduction in the installation costs of WSN, we anticipate the risk of generating technological waste as the circular economy supported by ICTs will be popularized.  In the present study, we show the importance of IoT in enabling a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient economic environment.  Similarly, we have proposed mechanisms to mitigate the risk of proliferation of technological components needed to support a precision circular economy. The suggestion is mainly based on the mandatory registration of WSN nodes and the creation, in Angola, of a public sensing infrastructure on a national scale.