1. © 2012 IBM Corporation Colin Harrison, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Corporate Technical Strategy Smarter Cities Meeting of the Minds October 10, 2012

2. © 2012 IBM Corporation 2 Smarter Planet – The Genesis In the last twenty years, the world has –Deployed a global, high-bandwidth network –Created a population of over 1 billion Internet users –Added roughly 4 billion mobile telephones –Embedded billions of sensors in our environment and infrastructure –Adopted globally-integrated business processes 2

3. © 2012 IBM Corporation 3 Smarter Planet – The Core Idea Across many domains of human activity it is no longer necessary to make guesses about what is happening today or what might happen tomorrow …we can extract insight about today and we can make good predictions about tomorrow …in many cases we already have the data The planet is now wired for data…what are we going to do with it all? 3

4. © 2012 IBM Corporation 4 Which led us to the Principle of “Smart” Physical World buildings, roads, pipelines, grids, airports, … Digital World applications, workflows, models, analysis, optimization, …. sensors & actuators networks data integration. Our world is becoming INTERCONNECTED Virtually all things, processes and ways of working are becoming INTELLIGENT Our world is becoming INSTRUMENTED The Digital and Physical Worlds are converging, enabling us to leverage information to develop Insight and Wisdom

5. © 2012 IBM Corporation 5 The IBM Intelligent Operations Center supports many use cases

6. © 2012 IBM Corporation 6  I2C, C2I, I2I, C2C  Improving the usability of the city  Organizing services around needs, not vice versa  Reducing cross-agency inefficiencies  Moving cities into the Internet age A new user interface between inhabitants and the city

7. © 2012 IBM Corporation 7