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-The edge layer of the \gls{IOT} contains small devices that sense and interact with the world.
+The edge layer of the \gls{IOT} is built from energy-efficient devices that sense and interact with the world.
While individual devices consume little energy, the sheer number of devices in total amounts to a lot.
-Furthermore, many \gls{IOT} devices operate on batteries and higher energy consumption increases the amount of e-waste as \gls{IOT} edge devices are often hard to reach and consequently hard to replace \citep{nizetic_internet_2020}.
+Furthermore, many of these devices operate on batteries and higher energy consumption increases the amount of e-waste as \gls{IOT} edge devices are often hard to reach and consequently hard to replace \citep{nizetic_internet_2020}.
It is therefore crucial to lower their energy consumption.
To reduce the power consumption of an \gls{IOT} edge device, the specialised low-power sleep modes of the microprocessors can be leveraged.
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