LAS VEGAS — At its Pulse 2011 conference
here, IBM is slated to announce that it is
working with cities around the world to help them gain new efficiencies by
visualizing and analyzing their physical and digital assets in real time.
Indeed, as part of its Smarter Cities initiative, IBM
is announcing smarter cities projects in Cape
Fear, N.C; Henderson,
Nev.; Waterloo,
Ontario; the Emirate of Abu Dhabi; and new
results from an IBM First-of-a-Kind Research
project in Washington, D.C.
Increasingly, cities are leveraging the power of location to bring
efficiency to their operations and improve the customer experience, IBM
officials said. They are using IBM software
to get both a bird’s eye view of their city infrastructures — roads, buildings
and waterways — as well as insight into their operations underground or on the
street — the pipes, wires, streetlights, electrical meters, storm drains and
other assets that make up a city’s infrastructure. Some cities are using
embedded sensors to detect faulty pipes or broken streetlights to automatically
generate a work order for maintenance staffs.
“Cities around the world are getting smarter everyday by monitoring and
analyzing the data in their streets, pipes and buildings,” said David
Bartlett, vice president of Industry Solutions at IBM,
in a statement. “We see that these real-time analytical technologies are
driving a new level of intelligence that helps cities — big or small, new or
old — to gain more efficient, sustainable operations.”
For more, read the eWeek article: IBM Makes Cities Smarter with Location-Based Analytics.
