A green program lifecycle supporting energy-efficient applications

The carbon dioxide emissions dramatically increased during the past 10 years, accelerating the greenhouse effect. With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), the percentage of global emissions attributable to Information Systems is expected to further increase in the coming years, due to a proliferation of Internet-connected devices omnipresent in our daily lives (e.g., electric meters, wearable devices, etc.) [1]. Although software systems do not directly consume energy, they strongly affect the energy consumption of the hardware [2]. So, developers should be more aware of the energy consumed by these systems during their lifetime, and think about the long-term consequences in the sustainability of our planet Earth [3,4,5].