The document discusses how cities can become smarter through the use of big data and cloud technologies. It outlines several key aspects of smarter cities including healthy citizens, sustainable infrastructure, efficient transportation and resource use, and smart city planning. It also discusses challenges around managing massive and growing data from varied sources. Finally, it provides examples of how IBM technologies like cloud computing, analytics, and cognitive solutions can help cities integrate and analyze big data to improve areas like building management, urban informatics, and overall city operations.

1. Rakesh Ranjan, Program Director IBM Analytics
Ranjanr at us dot ibm dot com
Smarter City powered by
BigData & Cloud

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What makes a city smarter?
1. Healthy employees and citizen (Eliza App)
2. Sustainable homes and buildings
3. Efficient and sustainable transportation
4. Efficient use of resources
5. Smartcity planning & operations
6. Smartwaste management

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Your city is a platform
Graphic Credit: Postscapes

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Smarter City & Big Data Challenge
• Manage and benefit from massive and growing amounts of data
• Handle varied data formats (structured, unstructured, semi-structured) and
increased data velocity
• Exploit BIG Data in a timely and cost-effective fashion
• Data curation to remove noise and random behaviors
• Find correlation between multiple big data sources to find an anomaly
• Targeted and actionable analytics integrating into business processes
Collect Manage
Integrate Analyze
COLLECT MANAGE
INTEGRATE ANALYZE

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IBM Cloud – Open for Data

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Smarter Buildings
1. Sensors technology used in the
buildings for monitoring and
control
2. Increase energy efficiency,
safety and security and
productivity of people working
3. Using cognitive technology for:
a. Finding and predicting faults
and failures in HVAC and
water systems
b. Control lighting and shading
c. Warning about air quality
and other bio danger
d. Control access

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Cognitive solution for a smarter building
• Quickly generate any type of sensor data using virtual sensor app
• Plugin to Bluemix IoT Cloud and start flowing your data in to the
application
https://virtualsensors.mybluemix.net/

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Real time urban informatics
• http://smartercity.mybluemix.net/chart

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Resources
• IBM Solutions for smarter cities
• Smarter City Challenge
• IBM Watson IoT platform
• Big Data & Analytics Hub
• Smarter City Council – Big Idea winner for smarter city
• IBM Bluemix IoT Platform as a Service
• IBM Smarter city solutions on cloud
Contact
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranjanr
@ranjans