•

Smarter cities
Create awareness of ”The Internet of Things”
Intelligent transport systems
Build traceability architectures for the food
industry

•

Prevent counterfeiting in the European
horticultural sector

•

Design solutions to track sea containers

•
Develop ideas and solutions addressing client
problems, developing new products and services – using new
technology

•

•

Executive Innovation Architect

Managing IT- & Services Strategically
CBS/SIMI Diploma, 2001

•

Architect a solution, i.e. to bridge business
requirements with technical capabilities and
design what is inbetween

•

•

Ability to function at all levels of a given problem
and across several domains:
Strategy, business, technology, implementation

Msc Econ/Cand. Polit.
University of Copenhagen, 1991

Optimze the construction industry by
integration of 3D building models with
RFID-tagged construction materials

•

Challenge the way banks think about marketing
by implementing digital media

•

Optimise the way galactic IT-implementation
projects collaborates
WHAT

HOW

WHY

Are we seeing that influences our
lives, products, environent and ways of
working?

Are we addressing problems and issues
through technology and how can this make
things better?

Is all of this interesting in an innovation
perspective and how should can we take
the challenge?
Minneapolis Interactive Macro-Mood Installation
INSTRUMENTED
Koubachi WiFi Plant Sensor
”Give your Plant a voice” - http://www.koubachi.com/
50
40
30
20
10
0
2003

2010

2015

2020

Source: Cisco IoT 2011 infographic and http://goo.gl/PLKf6F
INTERCONNECTED
In 60 seconds
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

2,4M posts on Facebook
204 million e-mails sent
15.000 downloaded from iTunes
2 million Google search queries
20 million photo views on Flickr
278.000 tweets
72 hrs of video uploaded to YouTube
11.000 searches on LinkedIn
100

9000

Volume in Exabytes

8000

Percentage of uncertain data

80

7000
60

6000

Social
Media

5000

4000

You are here

3000

20

VoIP
Enterprise
Data

2010

Source: IBM Global Technology Outlook - 2012

40

2015

0

Percent of uncertain data

Sensors
& Devices
Big data changes everything: From forecasting to nowcasting
Volume

Terabytes to
exabytes of
existing data
to process

Velocity

Variety

Veracity

Streaming
data, millisecond
s to seconds to
respond

Structured, unstru
ctured,
text
and multimedia

Uncertainty from
inconsistency,
ambiguities, etc.
INTELLIGENT
Environmental
management

Intelligent
transportation

Public safety
Energy management

Water management
HOW
SHOAL: Pollution-monitoring fish

Placemeter: Real-World Analytics

Brain-to-brain communications

Ambient Energy Orb

Mimo Baby Kimono

Fitbit

Raspberry Pi
http://www.container-centralen.co.uk/rfid.aspx
WHY
Innovation

We are ushering in a new wave of innovation
Age
of Steel,
Electricity
and Heavy
Engineering

The
Industrial
Revolution

Age
of Steam
and Railways

Age
of Oil, Cars
and Mass
Production

Age
of IT &
Telecom

6th Wave

5th Wave

4th Wave

Smarter
Products

3rd Wave

 Instrumented, i
nterconnected,
and intelligent
 Building blocks
for a smarter
planet

2nd Wave

1st Wave

 Sustainability

1770

1830

1875

1920

1970

2010
Sixth Wave Thinking
6th Wave

1.Waste = Opportunity
2.Sell the Service, not the Product
3.Digital and Natural Converge
4.Bits are Global, Atoms are Local
5.If in Doubt, Look to Nature
Price

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Biodynamic
Organic

Conventional
Pesticides

Production
method
Network

Herpacides

Price
Production
environment

Chemicals
Child labor

Sustainability

Packaging

Geosphere

Profiled

Biosphere

GMO

Environmental
footprint

Health
consequences
Positive

Track

Negative

Sociosphere
Transport

History/Origin
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Climate
change

Sustainability

Health
impact
IBM

Thank you
Kim Escherich
IBM Global Business Services
escherich@dk.ibm.com
+45 2880 4733
internetofthings.dk
escherich.biz
@kescherich
/in/escherich
/escherich
kescherich@gmail.com

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