Sustainable Innovations

PLANET’s Sustainable Innovation Goals

Since its founding in 1993, PLANET Technology has been deeply rooted in the information and communication technology industry, continuously driving innovation in networking products and technologies. The Company has developed intelligent, energy-efficient network equipment and integrated renewable energy applications, steadily advancing toward high-end networking, industrial Ethernet, and AIoT smart applications.

With a product lifecycle mindset, PLANET is enhancing long-term product development and sustainable competitiveness. The Company sets short-, mid-, and long-term goals to maintain its innovation leadership in the network communications industry. (Learn more)

Sustainable Product Design - Circular Economy

PLANET adopts a product life cycle approach as its core strategy, integrating circular economy principles into product and operational management, from design, R&D and manufacturing, packaging and transportation, to usage, maintenance, recycling, and reuse, while cross-functional collaboration is implemented to enhance resource efficiency and material circularity, thus reducing the impact on the environment. The product development complies with international regulations and customer needs in order to provide sustainable, energy-saving, and smart managed network infrastructure solutions for the global market.

Product Life Cycle Stage	Circular Economy Focus	Key Initiatives	2025 Performance & Results
Sustainable Raw Materials	Source Reduction & Circular Design	Modular and standardized design Integrating Green Design principles into Product Requirement Documents	15 product design requirement documents comply with green design principles and disclosed energy optimization data. Achieved a 23% YoY decrease in new outer box procurement through shared design and packaging reduction.
Production	Resource Efficiency Enhancement	Energy-saving process and equipment optimization Reducing electricity consumption in laboratories and testing	R&D and testing electricity consumption decreased by 15,000 kWh, a 17% reduction compared to the previous year.
Distribution	Reduction & Reuse	Plastic-free packaging design Merging trips of shipment	Plastic-free packaging reached 20.5% of the product ratio. Reduced transport volume and carbon footprint through shipment merging trips and packaging reduction.
Product Use	Lowering End-user Consumption & Extending Lifespan	Developing energy-saving and renewable energy products Increasing local repair rates	Sales volume of green energy products (BSP series) grew 276% YoY, helping customers reduce power usage. Local repair rate reached 92.4%, effectively extending product service life.
Disposal & Recycling	Delaying Scrappage & Reducing Recycling Needs	Product sample reuse	Product sample reuse rate reached 40%, lowering the demand for scrapping and recycling disposal.

◾ AIoT Application Server – AI intelligent energy management

PLANET has developed innovative AI-driven intelligent networking products. Its AIoT Application Server NMS-AIoT leads the global market with its unique cross-protocol AI energy management design. By leveraging artificial intelligence, it collects, analyzes, and manages data from various IoT sensors, including those for power usage, water leakage, CO₂ levels, and ambient light. This assists enterprises in monitoring energy usage and carbon emissions-related ESG metrics, optimizing energy efficiency, and achieving energy-saving and carbon reduction goals within intelligent network environments. The NMS-AIoT has won 2024 COMPUTEX Best Choice Award - Sustainable Tech Special Award and the IoT Application Category Award. (Click video)

At the same time, the BSP-4215 industrial-grade PoE switch won the 2026 Taiwan Excellence Award, featuring renewable energy-efficient design and industrial-grade durability, complementing the NMS-AIoT platform, showcasing PLANET's leadership in the green energy and high-efficiency networking domain.

◾ Renewable Energy Network Management Solution – Enabling Off-grid, Zero-carbon Communications

PLANET is the first brand in Taiwan to integrate natural renewable energy with Ethernet transmission technology. It pioneered the global development of the "Renewable Energy Network Equipment" series, which operates independently of the power grid. These products significantly enhance the efficiency of power transmission and smart energy-saving management, while improving energy utilization. They also enable independent network communication in both metropolitan and remote areas, accelerating various smart IoT applications. Several product series have been recognized with the Taiwan Excellence Award. (Learn more)

PLANET’s Renewable Energy PoE Switch series, by operating without grid electricity, has saved 656,400 kWh of electricity for customers' network infrastructures in 2025, equivalent to an energy consumption of 2,363.04 GJ, and reduce carbon emissions by approximately 365,615kgCO2e, equivalent to the annual carbon absorption of 30,468 trees in total.

Products	Maximum Power Consumption per Unit (Watts)	BTU Joules per Hour Note 1	2025 Product Annual Power Consumption (kWh)	2025 Product Annual Energy Consumption (GJ Total Standard Energy)	2025 Product Annual Carbon Emission Reduction (kgCO2e) Note 2	2025 Product Approximate Annual Carbon Absorption by Trees (units) Note 3
Renewable Energy PoE Switch BSP-115HP-5A	75.60	257.96	59,603	214.57	33,199	2,767
Renewable Energy PoE Switch BSP-115PV-15A	140.00	477.70	51,509	185.43	28,690	2,391
Renewable Energy PoE Managed Switch BSP-360	135.36	461.87	203,950	734.22	113,600	9,467
Renewable Energy PoE Managed Switch IGS-5225-4UP1T2S-12V	367.6	1,255.14	341,339	1,228.82	190,126	15,844
Annual Total	718.5696	2452.66	656,400	2,363.04	365,615	30,468

• Note 1. Power unit conversion: P (BTU/hour) = P (kW) x 3412.14, 1 BTU/hour = 0.00029307107 kW.
• Note 2. PLANET’s products are sold worldwide, and carbon emissions calculations use the global average carbon emission factor, based on the sales distribution of PLANET products across continents multiplied by the latest emission factors for each continent (Source: Swiss Environmental Database Ecoinvent), with the average of the emission factors taken.
• Note 3. According to research data from the Bureau of Forestry of the Council of Agriculture of the Executive, one tree per year can reduce the Earth's carbon dioxide equivalent by 12 kilograms on average.

Products Awards and Recognitions

PLANET has been dedicated to network and communication technologies and product innovations, and continuously launches innovative network equipment and solutions to meet the diverse and changing needs of the market. Over the years, PLANET’s products have been recognized by governments, media and international exhibitions in many countries. Its products have also won the "Taiwan Excellence Award" for 22 years. (Learn more)