Design principles

The IoT Lens sustainability pillar includes 24 design principles that advise you on how to judiciously use and right size your AWS services to manage your IoT workloads and resources. These cover processor, storage, power, OS and programming environments, OTA and networking strategies, and messaging parameters for your IoT workloads.

Design principles

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Considerations for General Purpose IoT Devices
Choose the right CPU
Choose a processor to minimize the energy used by your workload
Choose a processor with advanced power management features
Use accelerators for machine learning inference
Choose storage that supports device longevity
Choose a power source with high efficiency
Dimension and manage batteries to maximize battery life
Choose an operating system that is appropriate for the type of device's features and functionality
Use an event driven architecture in your IoT devices
Choose a power efficient programming language
Optimize ML models for the edge
Use Over-The-Air device management
Adopt power conservation practices appropriate to your wireless technology
Choose a lightweight protocol for messaging
Reduce the amount of data transmitted
Reduce the distance traveled by data
Optimize log verbosity
Buffer and spool messages
Optimize the frequency of messages for your use case
Use gateways to offload and pre-process your data at the edge
Perform analytics at the edge
Monitor and manage your fleet operations to maximize sustainability

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