Development of an Innovative ICT Infrastructure for an Eco-Cost System with Life Cycle Assessment

A novel Internet-based information communication technology (ICT) infrastructure for an eco-accounting system was successfully developed to deliver “EcoCosts”, which are the values of environmental impact throughout product life cycle. The ICT manages its internal elements and interacts with operation modules in supply chain via Web-based service interfaces. consists upperware, middleware, resource layers. upperware layer manipulates middleware (cloud-based load balancing, cycle assessment, services, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)-enabled mobile access), associated resources within system. As features infrastructure, balancing is used handle large numbers data allocate computing across network nodes, assessment conducted analyse footprints, core “EcoCost”, facilitate consumers comparing impacts between different products. case study by transmitting EcoCosts from businesses through Internet, verifying this research. Because research aims pay more attention aspects, EcoCost represented using a single value, hence simplifying related calculation. This provides solution dealing loads required manage transmit consumers.