"Saving the Earth with the Internet of Things" gives NGOs, educators, students and local governments 100 step-by-step projects, each with a shopping list of inexpensive off-the-shelf sensors, addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
HOUSTON, Sept. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A new book from IoT veteran Rob Tiffany argues that the technology needed to make measurable progress on the world's most pressing environmental and societal problems is already sitting on the shelf, and that the people closest to those problems have simply never been told what to buy or how to solve them.
"Saving the Earth with the Internet of Things: 100 Ways You Can Make the World a Better Place" was published August 1, 2026 by Hood Canal Press. The 512-page hardcover translates the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into 100 buildable projects, each accompanied by step-by-step instructions and a parts list of inexpensive, commercially available sensors.
The book departs from most technical writing on the subject by assuming no engineering background. Actionable projects range from rural flood warning systems and wildfire detection to precision agriculture, water quality monitoring, cold chain integrity and building energy waste.
"The barrier was never engineering talent," Tiffany said. "It was that nobody handed the NGO worker, the city engineer, sustainability leader, or the high school teacher a parts list and simple directions. That is what this book is."
The gap the book addresses is measurable. American water systems lose roughly six billion gallons of treated water every day to leaks, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. Buildings account for about 37 percent of global energy and process-related carbon dioxide emissions, per the United Nations Environment Program. Wildfires burn more than seven million acres a year in the United States at a federal suppression cost near three billion dollars, according to National Interagency Fire Center data. In each case, Tiffany argues, the sensing technology required to detect the problem earlier costs a fraction of the damage it would prevent.
Ray Ozzie, founder and executive chairman of Blues Inc. and former chief software architect at Microsoft, said "the Sustainable Development Goals are one of humanity's clearest shared frameworks for addressing hunger, health, water, energy, climate, and protecting life on Earth. Rob Tiffany takes a refreshingly pragmatic approach, showing how commodity IoT technology can be applied immediately, today, to give communities the evidence they need to spot problems sooner and act faster. Global impact begins locally."
Saving the Earth with the Internet of Things also functions as a textbook, with learning objectives and review questions closing each chapter, aimed at high school classroom projects, university curriculum, and capstone builds. Instructor review copies and syllabus mapping are available.
The book is available in hardcover on Amazon. A press kit, including downloadable assets, a fact sheet and suggested interview questions, is at robtiffany.com/press
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