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How Digital Experiments Support Sustainability in a Forest Machine Operator Company: A Case Study

Authors:
Marko Jäntti
Jarmo Koponen
Markus Aho

Keywords: Green ICT, software system, Internet of Things

Abstract:
Increasing number of organizations are adopting Green Information and Communication Technology (Green ICT) practices for their service operations. There are two main types of Green ICT in the organizational context. First, Green for ICT where ICT aims at reducing its own footprint and second, Green by ICT aiming at offering digital tools that reduce the environmental footprint of all business activities in the organization. In this paper, we present two digital experiments where green by ICT solutions for a forest machine operator company were engineered by software development practices. In this study, we aim to answer the research problem: How digital experiments support sustainability in a forest machine operator company? This embedded case study is based on two consecutive digital experiments conducted in Finland with a large scale forest machine operator company. The first digital experiment focused on tank level monitoring and the second experiment on mass monitoring. Our results highlight the challenges in receiving sustainability data from subcontractors and IT providers. Additionally, IoT-enabled monitoring services can eliminate traveling to remote storage areas and thus may reduce CO2 footprint remarkably.

Pages: 1 to 6

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2025

Publication date: September 28, 2025

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-68558-296-8

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from September 28, 2025 to October 2, 2025