March 2010
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metafiend:
IBM - The Smarter City http://bit.ly/diAO5I
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Evernote shared notebook: The City As a Platform,... →
I love Evernote, and use it on my laptop and blackberry. But I never realized the utility of sharing a note publically, such as this example from the SXSW panel that my IBM colleagues and others participated in. What an amazing way to share knowledge.
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SXSW Tackles “City as Platform”
There’s a growing (renewed?) interest in the Internet of Things around the benefits for a more instrumented and connected city. IBM organized a session at SXSW in Austin that took place this morning titled, “City as Platform.” The objectives of the session was to discuss the role of information architects, the interface of systems with the built world, the steps needed to transform the thinking...
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SXSW Interactive 2010: John Tolva Talks Smarter...
Listen to this podcast (16:25, MP3) we recorded recently at SXSW Interactive in Austin to hear John explain smarter cities in more and fascinating detail, and also to discuss his experience in the IBM Corporate Service Corps, IBM’s equivalent of the Peace Corps.
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Walkable neighborhoods a buffer to foreclosures →
plainpaul:
A forward thinking article from Worldchanging.com:
Looking at data from more than 40,000 mortgages throughout Chicago, San Francisco and Jacksonville, Fla., the researchers behind the Location Efficiency and Mortgage Default report found that the rate of mortgage foreclosure actually decreased in neighborhoods that were more compact, walkable and connected to public transportation...
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RT @smarterplanet: If you care about smarter... →
sjsg:
RT @smarterplanet: If you care about smarter cities, follow the #cityisaplatform hashtag. #sxsw panel with @immerito @benberkowitz @dustinhaisler @jmasengarb
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Great opportunity to Help the world in Climate...
I was reading an article last Monday about building a Smarter Planet which was address by Samuel J. Palmisano on January 12, 2010.
As an human being we all are responsible fro Climate Change. After reading the article I got to know how our (IBM) technology can help our planet to utilize the existing resources in a better way (in GDF we have learnt how to eliminate Waste in a business process...
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Streets
We often notice that street lights are not turned OFF or ON at proper times. Either it will be too dark and no light or the lights will be still ON during the day wasting so much of electricity. If there was a sensor which would detect the brightness outside and make sure the lights are turned ON or OFF as per the requirements it would save lot of electricity and make effective utilization of...
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WatchAt TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for “raw data now” — for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up. (via Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide | Video on TED.com)
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“Royal Haskoning and Green Ventures today announced a new collaboration which...”
– Peterborough Launches Smarter City Project to Transform City Systems and Drive Economic Growth - United States
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“People are the actuators (in a city)”
– Assaf Biderman, MIT SENSEable City Lab /via @smarterplanet (via spime)
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Smart Underground Cabling
One of the initial step to make smarter city is managing their electrical, optical and other wired cabling.
When we say, we will built zero external wire cable city then it is very important to think, where we will give home to these cables?
I have seen now a days our traditional sewage lines has became new home for these cables but does really we are achieving the our objective of smarter...
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