How to grow from a smart solution to a smart city
Smart Cities – Driving a New Economy:
How to grow from a smart solution to a smart city
March 16, 2016
Peter Guest, P. Eng.
Client Technical Leader
AB & BC Public Sector
[email protected]
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Internet of Things digitizes our world, providing us
with prolific amounts of data and new delivery models
that allow business to engage in new value creation
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Government and
Services to Citizens
Public Safety
Transportation
Social
Services
Commerce
Education
Natural
Resources
Environmental
Sustainability
Buildings
Telco
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Healthcare
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Cognitive systems are fundamentally different
from what you have today
Understand
Adapt and make sense of all data;
“read” text, “see” images and “hear”
natural speech with context
Reason
Interpret information, organize it and
offer explanations of what it means,
with rationale for the conclusions
Learn
Accumulate data and derive insight
at every interaction, perpetually
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Outthink the limits of what’s possible …
IoT
IBM Watson
Connects devices, gateways and endpoints
Secures and integrates device data and
contextual data
Scales via cloud-based services
Analyzes performance and utilization data
Applies cognitive technologies to help
change how we approach and
understand the world’s information
Leverages data driven industries and
economies to bring cognition to
everything and everyone
Reason and learns from data
IBM Watson IoT Platform
• Platform of Platforms – IBM is committed to integrating with other leading platforms so
customers are not forced to chose proprietary tech stacks
• IoT specific security – security micro-services built specifically for IoT-based solutions
• Rich integration of contextual data sources – leading the industry at partnering with
outside data providers (e.g. Weather Company)
• Deep, industry-specific analytics models
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Ready your business for cognitive IoT
Start by deploying a highly secure, scalable, and open platform
that lets you start small, and grow quickly
Weather Data
Social Sentiment
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Performance
Applications
Solutions
Optimizing Operations
for Business Impact
New business models
for industry
Business
Transformation
Connecting the
data that
matters
Device
Utilization
Platform
Everything you
need to innovate
with IoT
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IBM Resources
Smarter Cities http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/ca/en/smarter_cities/overview/
Internet of Things http://www.ibm.com/internet-of-things/
Cognitive Solutions http://www.ibm.com/cognitive/
The Weather Company http://www.ibm.com/ibmandweather
Bluemix PaaS http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/
Global Entrepreneur Program https://developer.ibm.com/startups/
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