Automation of Data Collection using IoT for ESGReporting

Sustainability reporting has become a critical component of contemporary business operations, as organizations endeavor to gauge and enhance their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. To facilitate this process, companies can utilize established frameworks provided by respected organizations such as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB). These frameworks allow companies to standardize their ESG reporting, making it easier to communicate their sustainability endeavors in a consistent and transparent manner. Some of the drawbacks of sustainability reporting frameworks are the manual data collection process which leads to a lot of credibility gaps in the report. To remove such ambiguities, we can incorporate the power of the IOT network which will automate the process of data collection in real-time and analysing the sustainability reports which enables the organizations for a quicker implementation of sustainable practices and produce more accurate and timely sustainability reports. To implement this network, a simulation environment that will mimic the architecture of real-life data collection using the Bevy wise MQTT broker and the Paho MQTT client library is implemented.