The document discusses how cities will become smarter through becoming instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent. It argues that by 2050, 70% of the world's population will live in cities, so cities must act now to address major challenges through smarter systems. These include smarter transportation, energy/utilities, healthcare, telecommunications, education, public safety, and government services. The goal is to use data and technology to improve services, the environment, public health and safety, and drive economic growth.
Smarter Cities | IET Talk on the Built Environment in 2050Alexis Biller
Talk organised by The IET (Institution of Engineering & Technology) at Imperial College, London, on 27 November 2009.
- Build Environment Technologies sub-group:
http://kn.theiet.org/communities/betnet/
The talk commences with example startling data to seek audience attention & participation. Cities are a fulcrum of ever growing population migration, this presents various issues that must be faced promptly so as to allow the next generation an opportunity to define their own built environment (for living, working, and playing). The ecosystem of groups involved is presenting new opportunities for entrepreneurs and new partnerships. The talk ends with a brief look-back at the technology that has been developed over the last 50 years, before posing a set of new questions and opening for discussion.
Event Speakers:
- Hoare Lea (Huw Blackwell)- Sustainable Homes
- Arup (Duncan Wilson) - The future of the workplace
- IBM (Alexis Biller and Chris Phillips) - Smart Cities and Urban Informatics
Link to this presentation using: www.bit.ly/smartC
(IBM internal link http://ibmurl.hursley.ibm.com/20V2)
My presentation illustrates an on-going study in the field of Smart cities’ evaluation. The analysis starts from a revised notion of triple helix considering that Civil society plays a prominent role toward the realization of sustainable development in cities (Etzkowitz and Zhou, 2006).
In order to assess the connections between Smart city development and this institutionalization of the Triple Helix, an Analytic Network Process model has been developed. This interrelated model is used for investigating the relations between smart cities components (smart governance; smart economy; smart people; smart living; smart environment), actors (Universities, Government, Industry and Civil Society ) and policy visions derived from the “Urban Europe” Joint Programme Initiatives, i.e. strategies to which the smart cities are moving to (Connected City, Entrepreneurial City, Liveable City and Pioneer City).
"A city is more than just a collection of buildings, streets, parks, and people, and the many different entities engaged in many different trades.
It's a living environment of different cultures, peoples, ideas and systems that are interdependent yet all determine and shape the others identity."
For the video version with narration, click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxHNVcO0JHM
The modern city is becoming a pointer system, the new URL, for tomorrow’s hybrid digital physical environment. Today's Facebook will be complemented by tomorrow's Placebook.
Power point presentation on smart city involving the contents:
1.What is smart city?
2.Why smart city?
3.Benefits of smart city.
4.Different Features of smart city involving:
a).Water supplies
b).Electricity supplies
c).Sanitation and solid waste management
d).Entertainment hubs
e).Transportation
f). Housing facilities
g).Safety and security
h).Health and education
Smarter Cities | IET Talk on the Built Environment in 2050Alexis Biller
Talk organised by The IET (Institution of Engineering & Technology) at Imperial College, London, on 27 November 2009.
- Build Environment Technologies sub-group:
http://kn.theiet.org/communities/betnet/
The talk commences with example startling data to seek audience attention & participation. Cities are a fulcrum of ever growing population migration, this presents various issues that must be faced promptly so as to allow the next generation an opportunity to define their own built environment (for living, working, and playing). The ecosystem of groups involved is presenting new opportunities for entrepreneurs and new partnerships. The talk ends with a brief look-back at the technology that has been developed over the last 50 years, before posing a set of new questions and opening for discussion.
Event Speakers:
- Hoare Lea (Huw Blackwell)- Sustainable Homes
- Arup (Duncan Wilson) - The future of the workplace
- IBM (Alexis Biller and Chris Phillips) - Smart Cities and Urban Informatics
Link to this presentation using: www.bit.ly/smartC
(IBM internal link http://ibmurl.hursley.ibm.com/20V2)
My presentation illustrates an on-going study in the field of Smart cities’ evaluation. The analysis starts from a revised notion of triple helix considering that Civil society plays a prominent role toward the realization of sustainable development in cities (Etzkowitz and Zhou, 2006).
In order to assess the connections between Smart city development and this institutionalization of the Triple Helix, an Analytic Network Process model has been developed. This interrelated model is used for investigating the relations between smart cities components (smart governance; smart economy; smart people; smart living; smart environment), actors (Universities, Government, Industry and Civil Society ) and policy visions derived from the “Urban Europe” Joint Programme Initiatives, i.e. strategies to which the smart cities are moving to (Connected City, Entrepreneurial City, Liveable City and Pioneer City).
"A city is more than just a collection of buildings, streets, parks, and people, and the many different entities engaged in many different trades.
It's a living environment of different cultures, peoples, ideas and systems that are interdependent yet all determine and shape the others identity."
For the video version with narration, click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxHNVcO0JHM
The modern city is becoming a pointer system, the new URL, for tomorrow’s hybrid digital physical environment. Today's Facebook will be complemented by tomorrow's Placebook.
Power point presentation on smart city involving the contents:
1.What is smart city?
2.Why smart city?
3.Benefits of smart city.
4.Different Features of smart city involving:
a).Water supplies
b).Electricity supplies
c).Sanitation and solid waste management
d).Entertainment hubs
e).Transportation
f). Housing facilities
g).Safety and security
h).Health and education
Smart cities | Smarter citizens Vienna - 25 Nov 2014 lrTim Jones
A keynote at the Zero Emission Cities Conference in Vienna focused on shifts in focus of smart cities. Key contrast is made between what is being embedded in city infrastructures to make them more intelligent and efficient vs. how people in cities can use, share and interpret data to make more intelligent decisions.
Talk is split into three parts:
What we say about the future of cities from the first Future Agenda programme in 2010
An overview of some of the key developments and collaborations that have taken place since
Some key questions that we see are being asked about citizen engagement that we will explore in the second future agenda programme in 2015
Some basic analysis of Indian cities to build the smart city & compared Ahemdabad & Surat the two cities from Gujarat.
Analysis taken from Ministry of Urban Development of India & some other private companies Affiliated with the Indian Government.
A Quintessential smart city infrastructure framework for all stakeholdersJonathan L. Tan, M.B.A.
Smart City Infrastructure Framework provides guidance to open government data and infrastructure essentials for ICT \ Telecom, Energy \ Renewable Energy, Water \ Waste Water, Transportation, Education, Health and Government Services systems
I. Smart City Drivers
Smart City Definition
Smart City Elements
II. Smart City Infrastructure Frameworks
III. Technology Ecosystem
Stakeholders
ICT Essentials
OGD
ICT for Building Automation
Smart Water
Smart Energy
Smart Transportation
Smart Education
Smart Healthcare
Smart City Services
IV. Smart City Applications
V. Smart City Systems Infrastructure
Top SC Vendors
Smart city implication on future urban mobility and transportationSuvodip Das
My project Report on 'Smart City:Its impact on Future Urban Mobility and Transportation' briefs a brief description about Smart City and It also briefs about how the urban mobility and transportation will shape in Smart City.
Elizabeth Kellar, president and CEO of the Center for State and Local Government and deputy executive director for ICMA, spoke on the topic of smart cities during the 2016 Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam. These were the slides that accompanied her speech.
#SmartCity is nothing but a city that satisfies its citizens aspirations on various parameters.
Here #IndoreSmartCity is sharing the ideal definition of #SmartCity according to all the parameters with citizens, so that they can share their views and aspirations for Indore.
Suggestions are invited at - http://bit.ly/IndoreSmartCity_Suggestions
Creating Smarter Cities 2011 - 04 - Rudolf Giffinger - VUT - The need for pla...Smart Cities Project
Because of different processes like economic restructuring, socio-demographic processes and technological progress cities are facing new challenges in the run of their recent trends of urbanization and metropolisation. These processes are assumed to have specific impacts on the cohesive territorial development in economic, social and spatial terms. As a consequence new strategic governance approaches became necessary steering development in different fields. In this context rankings have experienced a remarkable boom.
In front of this development, this paper concentrates first on the question how to define a ‘smart’ city which is able to cope with such challenges. Based on this understanding the own ranking approach („European Smart Cities“) is described systematically. Based on a hierarchical approach with a sample of relevant factors the paper describes in short how cities cope with the results and what are typical reactions of local governments and stakeholders. In this context two specific urban strategies for steering development and processes of learning in general, but especially with respect to urban governance, are discussed within this paper. Finally, the paper elaborates that here the buzz-word ‘smart’ is not used in an explicit technology perspective but in a clear place based understanding similar to the EU-Territorial Agenda 2020. Accordingly an outlook describes how ‘smart’ will be used and understood in a place based and territorial perspective including technological impacts.
The first question is what is meant by a ‘smart city’. The answer is, there is no universally accepted definition of a Smart City. It means different things to different people. The conceptualization of Smart City, therefore, varies from city to city and country to country, depending on the level of development, willingness to change and reform, resources and aspirations of the city residents. A Smart City would have a different connotation in India than, say, Europe. Even in India, there is no one way of defining a Smart City.
Smart City Features:
Quick accident relief: In case of accident or fault in a vehicle, people will get help in just one call. They will get help through CCTV too.
Smart Traffic system: On the lines of London’s Smart Traffic System, people will get the information regarding heavy traffic in advance. At present, Bangalore has this system.
Face Identification System to catch criminals: On the lines of Paris, the Smart City will have Face Identification System in place to catch criminals. The photos and DNA of criminals and suspects will be entered in computer and information will also be shared with other cities.
Smart cities | Smarter citizens Vienna - 25 Nov 2014 lrTim Jones
A keynote at the Zero Emission Cities Conference in Vienna focused on shifts in focus of smart cities. Key contrast is made between what is being embedded in city infrastructures to make them more intelligent and efficient vs. how people in cities can use, share and interpret data to make more intelligent decisions.
Talk is split into three parts:
What we say about the future of cities from the first Future Agenda programme in 2010
An overview of some of the key developments and collaborations that have taken place since
Some key questions that we see are being asked about citizen engagement that we will explore in the second future agenda programme in 2015
Some basic analysis of Indian cities to build the smart city & compared Ahemdabad & Surat the two cities from Gujarat.
Analysis taken from Ministry of Urban Development of India & some other private companies Affiliated with the Indian Government.
A Quintessential smart city infrastructure framework for all stakeholdersJonathan L. Tan, M.B.A.
Smart City Infrastructure Framework provides guidance to open government data and infrastructure essentials for ICT \ Telecom, Energy \ Renewable Energy, Water \ Waste Water, Transportation, Education, Health and Government Services systems
I. Smart City Drivers
Smart City Definition
Smart City Elements
II. Smart City Infrastructure Frameworks
III. Technology Ecosystem
Stakeholders
ICT Essentials
OGD
ICT for Building Automation
Smart Water
Smart Energy
Smart Transportation
Smart Education
Smart Healthcare
Smart City Services
IV. Smart City Applications
V. Smart City Systems Infrastructure
Top SC Vendors
Smart city implication on future urban mobility and transportationSuvodip Das
My project Report on 'Smart City:Its impact on Future Urban Mobility and Transportation' briefs a brief description about Smart City and It also briefs about how the urban mobility and transportation will shape in Smart City.
Elizabeth Kellar, president and CEO of the Center for State and Local Government and deputy executive director for ICMA, spoke on the topic of smart cities during the 2016 Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam. These were the slides that accompanied her speech.
#SmartCity is nothing but a city that satisfies its citizens aspirations on various parameters.
Here #IndoreSmartCity is sharing the ideal definition of #SmartCity according to all the parameters with citizens, so that they can share their views and aspirations for Indore.
Suggestions are invited at - http://bit.ly/IndoreSmartCity_Suggestions
Creating Smarter Cities 2011 - 04 - Rudolf Giffinger - VUT - The need for pla...Smart Cities Project
Because of different processes like economic restructuring, socio-demographic processes and technological progress cities are facing new challenges in the run of their recent trends of urbanization and metropolisation. These processes are assumed to have specific impacts on the cohesive territorial development in economic, social and spatial terms. As a consequence new strategic governance approaches became necessary steering development in different fields. In this context rankings have experienced a remarkable boom.
In front of this development, this paper concentrates first on the question how to define a ‘smart’ city which is able to cope with such challenges. Based on this understanding the own ranking approach („European Smart Cities“) is described systematically. Based on a hierarchical approach with a sample of relevant factors the paper describes in short how cities cope with the results and what are typical reactions of local governments and stakeholders. In this context two specific urban strategies for steering development and processes of learning in general, but especially with respect to urban governance, are discussed within this paper. Finally, the paper elaborates that here the buzz-word ‘smart’ is not used in an explicit technology perspective but in a clear place based understanding similar to the EU-Territorial Agenda 2020. Accordingly an outlook describes how ‘smart’ will be used and understood in a place based and territorial perspective including technological impacts.
The first question is what is meant by a ‘smart city’. The answer is, there is no universally accepted definition of a Smart City. It means different things to different people. The conceptualization of Smart City, therefore, varies from city to city and country to country, depending on the level of development, willingness to change and reform, resources and aspirations of the city residents. A Smart City would have a different connotation in India than, say, Europe. Even in India, there is no one way of defining a Smart City.
Smart City Features:
Quick accident relief: In case of accident or fault in a vehicle, people will get help in just one call. They will get help through CCTV too.
Smart Traffic system: On the lines of London’s Smart Traffic System, people will get the information regarding heavy traffic in advance. At present, Bangalore has this system.
Face Identification System to catch criminals: On the lines of Paris, the Smart City will have Face Identification System in place to catch criminals. The photos and DNA of criminals and suspects will be entered in computer and information will also be shared with other cities.
Abstract:
In 2050, the number of people living in cities will be almost as large as the world’s entire population today. That’s why we need completely new approaches to be taken in order to make our cities to be Smart City. Smart Cities gained importance as a means of making ICT enabled services and applications available to the citizens, and authorities that are part of a city’s system. It aims at increasing citizens’ quality of life, and improving the efficiency and quality of the services provided by governing entities and businesses. Smart City is a type of city that uses new technologies to make them more livable, functional, competitive and modern through the use of new technologies, the promotion of innovation and knowledge management. Cities today are facing significant challenges including increasing populations, infrastructures, and declining budgets.
Mr. Khalid Attia's presentation at QITCOM 2011QITCOM
QITCOM 2011
Presentation:
E-City Concept - Building Future, Green, Intelligent City
Presenter:
Mr. Khalid M. Attia - Service Solutions Director, Huawei
A technical lecture on Information and Technology as enabler for Smart City at Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Vadodara, Center
Short presentation about smarter cities and why data scientist are in for the treat - having the sexiest jobs in the world. Presented on the Smarter Planet Comes To You tour @ Copenhagen University campus on May 21, 2013
Smart Cities: Self-regulating, Neoteric Or Entrepreneurial ? Samir Raj Bhandari
It implements user-friendly information and communication technologies developed by major industries for urban spaces.
Smart cities are forward-looking, progressive and resource-efficient providing high quality of life. They can be intelligent, progressive, entrepreneurial or all in some cases.
Smart City: provocări și pași ai evoluției / Smart Cities challengesRadu Vasiu
presentation for the Timis Academic Days Timisoara 28 May 2015
Smart City: provocări și pași ai evoluției / Smart Cities challenges
Sesiunea Plenara ZAT 2015, 28 mai 2015
Implicatiile schimbarilor climatice asupra societatii, economiei si mediului
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
5. The city is a microcosm of the major challenges and opportunities facing the planet today - intensified and accelerated. Public Safety Government Services Education Healthcare Transportation Energy and Utilities Telecommunications
6. Time to act: Cities will increasingly serve as the crucibles where the success or failure of our planet is determined.
7. Instrumented: We now have the ability to measure, sense and monitor the condition of almost everything. Interconnected: People, systems and objects can communicate and interact with each other in entirely new ways. Intelligent: We can now respond to changes quickly and get better results by predicting and optimizing for future events.
8. Smarter cities are working to infuse intelligence into each of their core systems. Telecommunications Government Services Education Healthcare Transportation Energy and Utilities Public Safety Public Safety Government Services Education Healthcare Transportation Energy and Utilities Telecommunications
9. Smarter transportation: An opportunity to improve the transit experience, reduce congestion and limit the impact on the environment. ROAD USER CHARGING ELECTRONIC FARE MANAGEMENT TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
10. Smarter energy and utilities: An opportunity to manage supply and demand. SMART GRID BUILDING EFFICIENCY ENERGY PORTAL WATER MANAGEMENT
11. Smarter healthcare: An opportunity to achieve better quality and outcomes, increase value and improve accountability and sustainability. HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGES CONSUMER PORTALS DISEASE SURVEILLANCE
12. Smarter telecommunications: An opportunity to interconnect the systems of a smarter city and lay the groundwork for longer-term economic growth. SMARTER TRAFFIC SYSTEMS SMARTER HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS . SMARTER FOOD SYSTEMS
13. Smarter education: An opportunity to nurture our most valuable resource. SMART ADMINISTRATION SMARTER CLASSROOM INNOVATION IN RESEARCH
14. Smarter public safety: An opportunity to turn data into insight to protect citizens and communities. CRIME DATA AGGREGATION EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT INTEGRATION SMART SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS
15. Smarter government services: An opportunity to infuse intelligence into needed services, stimulate economies and save taxpayer time and money. CITIZEN AND BUSINESS CENTERED DESIGN INTEGRATED DELIVERY OF SERVICES GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY
16. How will we infuse intelligence into our city systems to create opportunity and compete on a global scale?
Editor's Notes
Building a smarter planet is IBM's point of view on how interconnected technologies are changing the way the world literally works. Smarter planet is also the foundation for IBM’s vision for smarter cities--a vision that demonstrates how cities can lead the way into a prosperous and sustainable future. Today’s cities face a range of challenges and threats to their sustainability—challenges across their systems and core infrastructures such as transport, water, energy, government services, education and healthcare.
[ ] 03/17/10 As we look at the planet, we all are clear that cities play an important role and many hold significant prominence in our world. In looking at the world’s population, in 1900, only 13% of the world's population lived in cities. In 2007, for the first time in history, the majority of the world’s population—3.3 billion people—lived in cities. By 2050, that number will have risen to 70% of the Earth’s total population. This unprecedented urbanization is both an emblem of our economic and societal progress—especially for the world's emerging nations—and a huge strain on the planet's infrastructure. Our vision is to bring a new level of smart intelligence to how the world works — how every person, business, organization, government, natural system, and man-made system interacts. Each interaction represents a chance to do something better, more efficiently, more productively.
[ ] 03/17/10 First, what draws us to cities? A good quality of life for citizens? Access to economic activities? Better education and healthcare options for ourselves and for our families?
[ ] 03/17/10 What draws us? What draws us the most is… OPPORTUNITY! As cities grow in both numbers and population, they are taking their place on the world’s center stage--with more economic, political and technological power than ever before. Economically, they are becoming the hubs of a globally integrated, services-based society. Essentially, cities offer individuals and businesses the ability to move things and people around through city transport systems and the opportunity to trade, work and share ideas.
[ ] 03/17/10 Cities are a microcosm of major challenges and opportunities facing the planet today. It is in cities where all man-made systems come together and interact with one another and the environment. As implied earlier, growing populations are causing cities to face significant sustainability challenges and threats to these infrastructures that deliver vital services. Adding to the strain of public demand for better education, greener programs, public safety, accessible government, affordable housing and more options for senior citizens and better quality of life for all. Consider: How much energy we waste How gridlocked our cities are—congested roadways results in wasted energy and productivity How inefficient our supply chains are How our planet’s water supply is drying up - demand > supply It is obvious, when you consider the trajectories of developments impacting our planet and our cities, we are going to have to run a lot smarter and more efficiently, especially as we seek to drive economic growth and sustainability.
[ ] 03/17/10 The time to act is now! City governments, more so than other levels of government, will increasingly serve as the crucibles where the success of failure of our planet is determined.
[ ] 03/17/10 First, the world and its cities are becoming instrumented . We now have the ability to measure, sense and monitor the condition of almost everything. Imagine, if you can, a billion transistors for every human being. Sensors are being embedded everywhere—across entire ecosystems—supply-chains, healthcare networks, cities… even in livestock and natural systems like rivers. Second, for the first time in history, almost anything can become digitally aware and interconnected. People, systems and objects can communicate in new ways. Very soon there will be 2 billion people on the Internet. Today, there are an estimated 4 billion mobile phone subscribers worldwide. In an instrumented world, systems and objects can now "speak" to one another, too. Think about the prospect of a trillion connected and intelligent things—cars, appliances, cameras, roadways, pipelines… even pharmaceuticals and livestock. The amount of information produced by the interaction of all those things will be unprecedented. Third, all things are becoming intelligent --being instrumented and connected are simply not sufficient. We must infuse intelligence into our systems and ways of working. Cities can now depend on n ew computing models to manage the massive amounts of data generated by the proliferation of end-user devices, sensors, and actuators, that are connected to back-end systems. Combined with advanced analytics, these technologies can turountains of data into intelligence that can be translated into action, making our systems, processes and infrastructures more efficient, more productive and responsive—ultimately, making them smarter.
[ ] 03/17/10 Smarter cities have already begun or are working to infuse intelligence into their core systems… many are finding new ways to maximize resources and overcome barriers by collaboration and connecting across multiple systems. As a ‘system of systems,’ all the ways in which the world works – from transportation to energy to healthcare to commerce to education to security to food and water and jobs and beyond – come together in cities. We indeed have the potential – both technological and political – to make our cities more productive, more efficient, safer, more vibrant and more responsive, and more sustainable. This though isn’t just theorectical, we see aspects of smarter cities all around us. Let’s see how organizations from both the public and private sectors are rethinking their systems, applying technology and providing services in new ways...
[ ] 03/17/10 Through smarter transportation solutions, cities can infuse intelligence into their entire transportation system, improving drivers’ commutes, giving better information to city planners, increasing public transportation usage and the productivity of businesses, and raising citizens’ quality of life. ROAD USER CHARGING Employ a dynamic toll system based on the flow of vehicles into and out of a city to reduce traffic. Stockholm implemented an intelligent toll system in the city center, which resulted in 20% less traffic, 40% lower emissions and 40,000 additional users of the public transportation system. ELECTRONIC FARE MANAGEMENT Enable rail, bus and road customers to purchase fares via SMS or online and have the fare collected automatically. TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Gain real-time traffic prediction and intelligent route planning capabilities.
[ ] 03/17/10 Smarter energy and utilities gives cities the ability to manage supply and demand. By providing real-time information about the follow of energy, an intelligent utility systems helps citizens and utilities make smarter, more responsible choices about the way they buy and sell and manage utility services. Now power companies can make smarter decisions about using a smart grid, and consumers can make smarter decisions about home energy usage. SMART GRID Monitor the health and stability of the grid at all times, identifying an outage or issue as soon as it happens and dispatching crews to address it immediately. Enable customers to monitor energy prices and their own energy use in real time. DONG Energy in Denmark installed monitoring devices across their distribution network. The increased insight into the grid’s performance will potentially lessen outage times by up to 50% and reduce maintenance investments by up to 90%. BUILDING EFFICIENCY Reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions, and save water usage, using sensors to monitor everything from motion and temperature to humidity, precipitation, occupancy and light CenterPoint Energy in Houston is installing over 2 million smart meters and in some cases an energy controller for household devices. Homeowners will be able to access their usage information in home displays or on a personal website to make smarter consumption decisions. WATER MANAGEMENT Use the right tools to optimize consumption, monitor quality. ENERGY PORTAL Store and quickly access energy consumption data, customer data, device monitoring and sensor data at all times—empowering the consumer.
[ ] 03/17/10 Healthcare leaders face challenges exacerbated by the current economic environment, as well as opportunities to create new business value. A smarter healthcare system forges partnerships and makes better use of data in order to deliver excellent care, predict and prevent disease and empower people to make smarter choices. Healthcare organizations see smarter healthcare as an opportunity to achieve better quality and outcomes, increase value and improve accountability and sustainability. A smarter healthcare system starts with better connections, better data, and faster and more detailed analysis. It means integrating our data and centering it on the patient, so each person "owns" his or her information and has access to a networked team of collaborative care. It means moving away from paper records, in order to reduce medical errors and improve efficiencies. And it means applying advanced analytics to vast amounts of data, to improve outcomes. Resulting in timely feedback from medical specialists to patients which supports patients in proactively managing his or her care . Both individually and collectively, stakeholders can take action to build more value-focused health systems. They can help the individuals and communities they serve to lead healthier, more productive lives, and help their cities and companies to compete globally. HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGES Enable patients, consumers, health practitioners and insurers to securely share clinical information across organizational boundaries, enabling safer, more timely, efficient and effective patient-centered care. CONSUMER PORTALS Encourage consumers to assume responsibility for health and chronic disease management through transparency of healthcare costs, quality of care and prescription drug costs, empowering them to make wiser health and financial decisions. DISEASE SURVEILLANCE Prevent and manage threats to the health of a community by capturing, sharing and modeling data to spot trends and identify causes, detect disease outbreaks early, efficiently manage cases and take action as needed to protect the public.
[ ] 03/17/10 A smarter planet will require a smarter communications infrastructure. Smarter telecommunications represents an opportunity to interconnect the systems of a smarter city and late the groundwork for longer-term economic growth. High-speed broadband, as important as it may be, doesn't make a network smart. We need the network to be multidirectional instead of point-to-point. Smart networks must be infused with advanced analytics and intelligence, so they can identify connected, instrumented things and collect relevant data from them. They'll have to be built on a foundation of standards and software that allow trillions of devices and objects to "talk." And we'll need next-generation digital platforms on which telecom providers can create and deliver all kinds of services. SMARTER TRAFFIC SYSTEMS Connect the elements of the transportation system—streets, bridges, intersections, signs, signals and tolls—with a strong telecommunications backbone. SMARTER HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS Automate patient records, share patient data, conduct remote diagnostics and more with fast and robust telecommunications infrastructure and systems. SMARTER FOOD SYSTEMS Provide end-to-end visibility across the entire global supply chain to allow farmers to obtain better real-time market pricing for produce and supplies and enable retailers and manufacturers to more efficiently integrate product demand with supply replacements.
[ ] 03/17/10 Smarter education represents an opportunity to nurture our most valuable resource. Our education systems are one of the great, enduring achievements of the 19th century. They were designed to prepare children for success in a burgeoning industrial economy, and they did their job well. But a 21st century services-and-knowledge-based economy has altered the landscape, and it requires different skills and ways of learning. If we hope to help our children achieve their potential—and realize the potential of a smarter planet—then school itself will have to get a lot smarter. SMARTER CLASSROOM Deliver effective learning content and tools to every student and teacher according to their needs, preferences, abilities, technology and aspirations. SMART ADMINISTRATION Incorporate data across education systems to optimize operations, improve services and lower costs. INNOVATION IN RESEARCH Accelerate innovation, knowledge creation and the economic impact of science with powerful tools for researchers.
[ ] 03/17/10 One of the first duties of a country is to protect its citizens. Smarter public safety gives cities an opportunity to turn data into insight to protect citizens and communities. CRIME DATA AGGREGATION Put decades worth of crime information at the fingertips of law enforcement officers at all times. The NYPD Crime Information Warehouse gives officers mobile access to more than 120 million criminal complaints, arrests and 911 records, as well as 5 million criminal records, parole files and photographs—resulting in a 27% reduction in crime. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT INTEGRATION Connect police, fire departments, ambulance services and other first responders so all are instantly alerted when an emergency takes places. The City of Madrid has developed a new Emergency Response Center, which aggregates emergency call data and instantly alerts the proper authorities, including police, ambulance services and the fire brigade. The city has experienced a 25% reduction in response time as a result of the implementation. SMART SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS Use digital cameras to continuously monitor urban areas and automatically alert authorities when a suspicious event occurs or when a license planet, vehicle or other entity is recognized.
[ ] 03/17/10 As cities work to infuse intelligence into their transport, energy, water, telecommunications and other systems, it begs the question… how will the operations of government work to stimulate economies and itself become smarter? Smarter governments will do more than simply regulate the outputs of our economic and societal systems. They will be a smoothly functioning system itself, interconnecting dynamically with citizens, communities and businesses in real time to spark growth, innovation, smarter decision-making, and progress. CITIZEN-AND BUSINESS CENTERED DESIGN Shift towards a citizen-centered business model to improve services, experiences and outcomes while lowering costs. Interconnect dynamically with citizens, communities and businesses to spark growth, innovation and progress. Enable online license renewals and validation of license holders. INTEGRATED DELIVERY OF SERVICES Connect people to needed programs with speed and accuracy. Enable cities to predict potential issues so preventative measures can be taken. The Cheshire County Council achieved a 20% reduction in time and cost required to perform in-home senior visits, improving the ability to proactively manage the course of health and social care for senior citizens. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLITY Results-driven agencies manage, monitor, analyze and report on key initiatives, with measurable outcomes.