The IoT-based environmental research theme focuses on integrating IoT and digital twin technologies to better gather, process, visualize and share environmental data.

This theme focuses on the development and deployment of smart responsive environmental sensing technology frameworks on land, in both urban and remote environments, indoor and outdoor, as well as on and or below water. Additionally, this theme serves as an interconnector between the tPOT research centre and the European University of Technology (EUt+) People Oriented Smart Technology Lab (POSTLab).

POSTLab investigates and delivers pragmatic smart technological solutions to challenges aligned with SDGs 3, 11, and 14. As a core POSTLab partner, tPOT has a strong emphasis on environmental monitoring and protection, supporting TU Dublin's Research Priority 4, "Sustainable Food and Environmental Protection".

As part of POSTlab, tPOT researchers develop data pipelines to pass sensed environmental data from diverse sources to advanced analytical tools and so contribute to the emerging Digital Twin Earth paradigm. This theme also focuses on developing critical, harmonised information models to enhance Digital Twin Earth data quality. This is critical to better gain insights into the complex, interacting processes of the world around us, enabling high-quality, interoperable environmental data to enhance our predictive capabilities. These capabilities, in turn, underpin sound decision-making and policy development related to, for example, city transport systems, environmental protection, and mitigation strategies.

Recognising that addressing global sustainability challenges requires timely and reliable access to diverse environmental and spatio-temporal, location-based data, this theme emphasises the critical need for such information. Furthermore, acknowledging that Earth's environmental processes transcend human-made borders, the integration of this work with the pan-European research community through the POSTLab EUt+ Research Group, ensures maximum impact and collaborative potential.