Nevertheless, it may play an important role in the global reduction of national emissions. According to the “SMART Portugal 2020” study, the expected indirect impact of this sector alone will enable the fulfillment of the European Union goals, representing this impact circa ten times the direct carbon footprint of the sector.
Expectably, the adoption of new ICT services in society, leverage the reduction in the total amount of CO2 emissions by 15%. The commercialization of services and solutions, based on the new information and communication technologies, will contribute decisively to the energy dependency reduction of our customers and consequent atmospheric carbon emissions minimization. The healthcare, education, and domotics domains have already started to become the base of this new paradigm and although still little significant, are already a new window of opportunity in environmental preservation.