What Is Smart Computing?

Smart Computing
Dr. Jyoti Surve
Associate Professor & HoD
Department of Information Technology
International Institute of Information Technology, I²IT
www.isquareit.edu.in

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Smart Computing
 Imagine, one day you are rushing late from
your office to home, Just thinking of what to prepare for
dinner, which vegetables are available in the fridge, whether
milk is there or not????
 BIG TENSION!!!
 Suddenly one message from your regular grocery shop pop
up on your smartphone “your order has been received for
vegetables and milk ,kindly make payment on this link.
Order will be delivered within an hour”
 Who has done it for you??your spouse??your children????
 No, it's your smart fridge
 who has sensed quantity of vegetables and
milk available and placed order
automatically to connected grocery shop
 What’s a life!!Thanks to smart computing!!

Smart Computing
in this sense means
adding computing
Power to our Phones,
Houses, Appliances or
public facilities, and
connecting them to a
network or the
Internet.

Definition Smart Computing
 Andrew H. Bartels defines what he means by “smart
computing” as “a new generation of integrated hardware,
software, and network technologies that provide IT systems
with real-time awareness of the real world and advanced
analytics to help people make more intelligent decisions
about alternatives and actions that will optimize business
processes and business balance sheet results.”
 How about saying that just as something in
 which ultimately helps us to make better decisions.
The real world gets smart by connecting it to a computer,
and computer get smart by connecting to the real world

The Five A’s Of Smart Computing
1. Awareness
2. Analysis
3. Alternatives
4. Actions
5. Auditability
 New technologies are necessary to support
smart computing. These include the ability to
capture data from the real world and send it
in real time for high-speed analysis and
feedback.

• First A of smart computing -Awareness means connectivity to
the world
• New technologies for pervasive interactions such as radio
frequency identification (RFID), sensors, video cameras, global
positioning system (GPS) chips, smart cards, and other tools
will capture data on the identity, status, condition, and/or
location of people and physical assets, data that indicates
anomalies that present a business opportunity, activity,
threat, or risk
• Wireless networks will transport this data from these client
devices back to central servers for analysis.

• Second A of smart computing- Analysis is done using
standard business intelligence tools
• Business intelligence and specialized analytical
software such as data mining and predictive
analytics, video image analysis, pattern recognition,
and artificial intelligence algorithms will determine
whether businesses or governments should act on or
ignore a pattern or an anomaly.
• For this analysis to have business value, though, it
will need to present alternatives.

• Third A of smart computing- Alternatives refers to
the decision-making process: evaluating alternatives
and making decisions
• Rules engines and workflow are the existing
technologies for deciding which alternative courses
to pursue, either automatically through the
application of a rule that says “if this happens, do
this”
• Once a human being or a rules engine makes a
decision on what to do, that decision should trigger
the requisite actions.

• Fourth A of smart computing- Actions are based on
the results of analysis, either automatic or with
human intervention
• The action may be as simple as quoting a different
price, placing a new order, making a new offer to a
customer, or initiating a customer service contact. Or
the action may be as complex as adjusting
thermostats in tens of thousands of households and
businesses to avoid an electricity brownout
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• Fifth A of smart computing- Auditability is a
feedback system to ensure that the action has taken
place, complies with legal regulations and company
policies, and also provides some way to evaluate for
improvement.
• Tracking all steps in the process to aid in regulatory
compliance, compliance with company policies and
goals, and improvement opportunities is critical. Any
definition of “smartness” includes elements of
monitoring activity and learning how to do it better.

Summary
The benefits of Smart Computing for business
will be real and substantial. But the risks and
obstacles are just as real and substantial.
Apart from issues of security, standards, and
interoperability, as well as the process and
organizational changes that accompany any
new technology, Smart Computing may raise
some troubling issues of customer data
privacy.

References
[1] ‘Smart Computing Drives The New Era Of IT
Growth’ by Andrew H. Bartels for Vendor Strategy
Professionals
[2] https://skkynet.com/smart-computing-in-real-
time/

Thank-you
International Institute of Information Technology, I²IT,
P-14, Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park,
Hinjawadi Phase 1, Pune - 411 057
Phone - +91 20 22933441/2/3
Website - www.isquareit.edu.in
Email - info@isquareit.edu.in

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