Consider the rate at which cities are changing and growing today. It's estimated that the urban population increases by 2 people every second. Rapid urbanization, strained infrastructure, and enormous amounts of data are placing new demands -- and creating opportunities -- for cities. IBM is working with cities around the world to use advanced technologies, like analytics, to help identify ways to tackle urbanization challenges, improve sustainability and deliver better services to their citizens.
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IBM Ecosystem Infographic: Building a Smarter City and State
Date added: 13 Mar 2013
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, The City of Boston and IBM are working together to transform the region’s physical infrastructure, engage citizens, reduce costs and improve efficiency. (Credit: IBM)
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Miami Dade County Water Sustainability Module
Date added: 04 Mar 2013
The Miami-Dade County Water Module alerts the Tropical Park Manager to leaky pipes in real-time to prevent water waste. Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department is using IBM's Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) software to save an estimated $1 million in water costs this year. This savings will be directed into services for residents including after-school programs and swim lessons for 10,000 kids this summer. (Credit: IBM)
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Seeing the Big Data Picture in Miami-Dade
Date added: 04 Mar 2013
Seeing the Big Data Picture in Miami-Dade (Credit: IBM)
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Portland Heater
Date added: 28 Jan 2013
Buildings used by the Portland, Oregon, public school system are on average nearly 70-years-old. This heater is an example of some of the aging infrastructure the schools are dependent on to maintain a safe and comfortable learning environment for students. With IBM Smarter Building technology Portland Public Schools are improving modernization efforts and more efficiently prioritizing repairs. (Photo courtesy of Portland Public Schools)
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Raising the IQ of School Buildings
Date added: 28 Jan 2013
Schools across the U.S. are discovering that bringing great intelligence and connectedness into a building's operations can go a long way toward creating more efficient, sustainable and profitable campuses. [Source: IBM Curiosity Shop]
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Portland Cracked Windowsill
Date added: 28 Jan 2013
This cracked windowsill at a school building in Portland, Oregon, is an example of the types of structural repairs needed across Portland Public School buildings. With IBM Smarter Building technology Portland Public Schools are reducing facilities management costs by 15 percent while improving speed of modernization by 46 percent. (Photo courtesy of Portland Public Schools)
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Portland Building
Date added: 28 Jan 2013
This is a picture of one of the 81 buildings used by the Portland, Ore., public school system. On average these buildings are nearly 70-years-old. Using IBM Tririga, Portland Public Schools can prioritize building modernization efforts, a critical element when determining budgets for repairing aging infrastructure. (Photo courtesy of Portland Public Schools)
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Suncoast
Date added: 28 Jan 2013
With nearly 178,000 students and 4,500 acres of land, the School District of Palm Beach County is the 11th largest school district in the United States. This is a picture of Suncoast High School in Palm Beach County--a math, science and engineering magnet school, rated by Newsweek as one of the top ten public high schools in the country. The School District of Palm Beach County is using IBM Smarter Building technology to increase profits generated from their non-school hour building and room rental program. Since rolling out the IBM solution, the program has increased leasing revenue and is expected to generate $4.5 million this year, providing a much needed source of funding for the district.
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Clark Country School District
Date added: 28 Jan 2013
Clark County School District in Nevada is the fifth largest school district in the country. This map indicates the locations of the 392 schools and administrative buildings across the 8,000 square mile school district. IBM Maximo software has streamlined CCSD's method for prioritizing, responding and repairing more than 110,000 work orders generated each year across the school district. (Photo courtesy of Clark County School District)
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IBM Smarter Cities India - The Urban Effect Infographic
Date added: 13 Sep 2012
IBM Smarter Cities India - The Urban Effect Infographic
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Social Sentiment about Traffic in India
Date added: 13 Sep 2012
Social Sentiment about Traffic in India
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IBM CEO Sam Palmisano and SVP Ginni Rometty Receive Key to the City of Rio de Janeiro
Date added: 09 Nov 2011
IBM Chairman, President and CEO Samuel J. Palmisano (left), and IBM Senior Vice President and incoming President and CEO Ginni Rometty (right), receive a key to the city of Rio de Janeiro from mayor Eduardo Paes. IBM became the first corporation to receive the honor following the successful launch of the Rio Operations Center. IBM is hosting its Smarter Cities Forum in Rio today to help government and business leaders learn how to tackle the challenge of mass urbanization
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Rio Operations Center
Date added: 04 Oct 2011
IBM worked with Rio to design a command center that integrates over 20 city departments to improve emergency response management and collaboration across the city. Predictive analytics capabilities use information to decide how to best react to current events and how to best plan for what is likely to happen in the future in order to minimize impact on citizens.
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IBM Rio Operations Center 1
Date added: 28 Dec 2010
The new Operations Center in Rio provides the incident commander and responders with a single, unified view of all the information that they require for situational awareness.
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IBM Rio Operations Center 2
Date added: 28 Dec 2010
At the new Rio Operations Center, the incident commander's view provides a summary of everything happening around the city on a video wall, including surveillance cameras, maps, simulations, news updates, resources and information about incidents.
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Rio Operations Center 3
Date added: 28 Dec 2010
The Rio Operations Center, which will be located in Cidade Nova, will integrate and interconnect information from multiple government departments and public agencies in the municipality to improve city safety and responsiveness to various types of incidents, such as flash floods and landslides.
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