Protecting the planet. Transforming agriculture.
can help businesses and consumers reduce their energy consumption, while making energy supplies more reliable through better grid management.
When applied across sectors including transport, agriculture and manufacturing, these solutions could help cut global greenhouse emissions by up to 20% by 2030.
Vodafone’s IoT platforms connect over 20 million smart meters worldwide, helping customers cut energy usage by nearly 10% (16.8% for commercial buildings). Schneider Electric, a multinational company specialising in automation, connected all their energy sources with 5G IoT. This helped them better predict and optimise their energy usage, and led to a CO2 emissions reduction of 78%.
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Connectivity can revitalise rural life by offering citizens access to the services, jobs and opportunities of urban communities, without the need to live in towns or cities.
In Ireland, Vodafone and ESB worked together on a project that brought full fibre connectivity to the rural town of Skibbereen, enabling the creation of the Ludgate Hub.
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This attracted several businesses to the area, created 319 jobs and contributed €4m to the local economy.
Farmers around the world experiment with digital solutions that can help them cut waste and operate more sustainably. These systems monitor everything from the weather to soil quality and crop health, and provide farmers with the data they need to water fields, use pesticides and more.
In Germany, Vodafone teamed up with Bayer to launch the first 5G network in a greenhouse, where insecticide researchers now study plant health and test climatic conditions. Data from the greenhouse is collected using 5G and processed through AI, with findings then use for further research or creating predictive models.
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Europe now has an opportunity to regain its global leadership in this space.