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The ambitious United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been introduced to address the main global challenges on this topic. However, sustainability challenges are highly interconnected and often addressed in isolation, underscoring the need for integrated data-driven approaches. This paper presents the design of a data management software platform tailored for edge\u2013cloud computing environments to support continuous SDG monitoring. The system enables real-time data collection at distributed edge devices and centralized analysis in the cloud, facilitating actionable insights in response to user-defined sustainability queries. 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