AI and Sustainability: Google Cloud Next ’24 Insights for Carbon Central

The Google Next 2024 conference was a game-changer for businesses committed to advancing sustainability. For NoviqTech, the conference illuminated pathways to expand Carbon Central through AI innovation and strategic partnerships. Here are the top three takeaways that will shape the future of Carbon Central and its impact on sustainability.

AI and Agents: Driving Sustainable Innovation

We heard from numerous partners about the transformative potential of Gemini and Vertex AI in enhancing sustainability efforts. Integrating Carbon Central with a range of AI agents gives us the capability to leverage advanced data analytics and machine learning. Harnessing this capability, we can provide Carbon Central users with actionable insights and predictive models, further refining our digital twin and analytics offering.

Digital twins are no longer just a concept — and can now evolve using data agents! We heard from companies like UPS who are leveraging AI data agents to enhance their digital twins, enabling real-time tracking of distribution networks. For Carbon Central, the power from data agents translates to real-time monitoring of production data, pinpointing errors, and uncovering carbon reduction opportunities.

By integrating data agents with sensors and IoT devices already embedded in our digital twins, we can achieve improved real-time monitoring of production processes. These agents can detect anomalies, simulate various scenarios, and pinpoint inefficiencies within the production facility. They provide actionable recommendations to optimise energy, reduce carbon emissions, and boost operational efficiency. Moreover, when implemented proactively, data agents can forecast potential environmental impacts, aiding businesses in adopting sustainable practices and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Agents can also support our customers navigate the complex sustainability landscape. Leveraging customer agents, Carbon Central users can gain immediate access to educational tools that help them understand carbon and guarantee of origin standards with confidence.

Sustainability: Harnessing AI for a Greener Future

One thing became clear, AI is set to revolutionise how businesses approach sustainability. Honest and granular data, with hourly matching of production data at its core, will pave the way for achieving ambitious sustainability targets.

Carbon Central’s real-time monitoring capabilities were already a game-changer, ensuring compliance with legislative standards, enabling trusted and transparent reporting. With AI, the potential for Carbon Central to continue to innovate across sectors is ever-growing:

• Supply Chain: Enhanced trust and transparency, real time monitoring, end to end coverage.
• Energy: Optimising building energy management, and integrating renewable energy platforms.
• Renewable Resources: Streamlining production management and fine-tuning carbon emission strategies.
• Agriculture & Land Use: Implementing crop detection, predicting harvest times, and modelling yield forecasts.
• Transport: Optimising fleet management, refining route planning, and advancing electric mobility platforms.

We are excited to continue to improve Carbon Central to support more industries and use cases backed by our AI capabilities.

Partnerships Are Key: Collaborating for Success

The conference highlighted the importance of partnerships in driving AI and sustainability innovation. Executive leaders from many partners shared their visions for incorporating generative AI and cloud technologies into their business models. Visionary thinking emphasises the need to enhance technology solutions with AI to meet the needs of customers.

In this rapidly evolving landscape, achieving sustainability goals requires innovative approaches and collaborative efforts. Partnerships play a pivotal role in harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to drive meaningful change and accelerate progress towards a more sustainable future. By combining expertise, resources, and technology, organisations can unlock new insights, optimise processes, and develop impactful solutions that address complex environmental and social challenges.

This is why we were so excited to meet so many innovators at the Partner Summit as part of the conference and businesses who are keen to transform their sustainable future using Carbon Central.

Our Closing Thoughts

Google Next 2024 marked a pivotal moment for businesses to embrace the transformative power of AI and cloud technologies in driving sustainability. As we integrate these learnings into Carbon Central, we are excited about the possibilities that lie ahead. By focusing on AI and agents, sustainability, and strategic partnerships, we are excited to redefine the future of sustainability.

About NoviqTech

NoviqTech (ASX: NVQ) harnesses the power of artificial intelligence and distributed ledger technology to provide trusted and transparent reporting across supply chains, carbon emissions reporting, and guarantee of origin. The NoviqTech brands — NoviqAI and TYMLEZ deliver novel and innovative technologies to organisations across the globe in sectors from maritime to regenerative agriculture, empowering them to make more informed decisions, track their carbon emissions with precision, and validate the authenticity of their products’ origins all in real-time.

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