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Clearly, GIS has a large role to play in achieving more efficient cities, supporting better decisions, and creating a smarter planet. IBM has been promoting their Smarter Planet campaign for years now, and I’ve been wondering for some time how IBM’s message might bring in their partnership with Esri into this message. Today, a YouTube [...]
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Creek Watch is a free iPhone application created by IBM Research in conjunction with California State Water Resources for monitoring the health of watersheds. The app enables users to quickly collect details about their local waterway, including the amount of water, the rate of flow, the amount of trash as well as capturing a [...]
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IBM has awarded 24 Smarter Cities Challenge grants to 24 cities worldwide, with each valued at $400,000. The Smarter Cities Challenge is a three-year endeavor that will ultimately award grants to 100 cities worldwide, with a total investment of $50 million. The contest required that each city match IBM’s investment with their own commitment of [...]
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This week IBM held their Pulse conference in Las Vegas to focus on intelligent infrastructure. In conjunction with the event, the company announced three cities that will be using their sensor and software combination for water system management and maintenance. The solution combines sensors with IBM’s Maximo Spatial software and Esri’s GIS software. Washington, D.C. [...]
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IBM announced a new smarter cities initiative with Rio today, and there’s a good feature about the details in Fast Company. The deal comes in the wake of devastating flooding last year that caused $13B in damages with 10,000 homes lost, and as a precursor to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympic Games [...]
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As part of their Smarter Planet initiative, IBM has put together their “Next Five in Five” list to tout the technological advancements they foresee over the next five years. The company weaves in several advancements in the spatial realm that will have high impact toward making us more efficient and delivering a better way of [...]
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IBM has launched CityOne, a game that aims to raise awareness, and help address some of the challenges and solutions for building a smarter city. The mission is to solve business, environmental and logistical challenges. The challenges involve energy, water, banks and retail, with the aim to highlight IBM’s business process management, collaborative technologies, and [...]
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The IBM Smarter Cities Initiative has engaged 430 clients to date, and shares some of the lessons that they’ve learned in the process. The stepped process that they outline for the approach of a city’s system of systems integration could just as easily outline the phased approach of a GIS implementation. The first step that [...]
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Michael Karasick, a vice president of technical and business strategy at IBM, at the recent Esri International User Conference. IBM had a big presence on the show floor at the event, and a team of more than 40 brightly dressed booth personnel that were promoting IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative [...]
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IBM is opening a Smarter Infrastructure Lab at Carnegie Mellon University to develop sensors and systems to monitor the state of infrastructure. The intent is to monitor and analyze the state of buildings, roads, water lines and other urban infrastructure. The software and systems will be tuned to process, monitor and analyze the data from [...]
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