IBM Smarter Planet Initiative:
How ICT SME Community in Egypt can Partner with it.
Dr Hisham El-Shishiny
IBM Master Inventor
World-Wide Leader of IBM Centers for Advanced Studies
The world is flatter, the world is smaller,
But the world is also becoming smarter
• The systems, infrastructures and processes that
underpin how business and society function are
becoming digitally aware, interconnected, infused
with intelligence
– From how services are delivered to the movement of people, money,
oil, to how billions of people work and live
– Smart energy, smart financial and insurance systems, smart traffic
systems, smart energy, retail, food, cargo, healthcare
• A new frame of reference that offers enormous promise
for economic growth and societal progress.
The vision
SMART PLANET
INSTRUMENTED
PEOPLE
INTERCONNECTED
COMPANIES, INSTITUTIONS, INDUSTRIES
INTELLIGENT
MAN-MADE SYSTEMS
NATURE’S SYSTEMS
Our vision is to bring a new level of smart to how the world works —
how every person, business, organization, government, natural
system, and man-made system interacts. Each interaction represents
a chance to do something better, more efficiently, more productively.
But more than that, as the systems of the planet become smart, we
have a chance to open up meaningful new possibilities for progress.
INTERCONNECTED
People, systems and objects are
communicating and interacting with each
other in entirely new ways.
Cars, appliances, cameras, roadways,
pipelines… even pharmaceuticals and
livestock.
Web connections
An estimated 2 billion people will be on
the Web by 2011 ...
… and a trillion connected objects –
cars, appliances, cameras, roadways,
pipelines – comprising the "Internet of
Things."
Mobile phones
Worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions
reached more than 4 billions
In the fourth quarter of 2007, in the USA,
texts exceeded voice calls for the first
time.
camera phones
One billion camera phones were
sold in 2007, up from 450 million
in 2006 …
3G devices growing 30% p.a.
Instrumented
INSTRUMENTED
Sensors are being embedded across entire
ecosystems – supply chains, healthcare
networks, cities, natural systems…
We will be able to sense, measure and see the
condition of everything.
Transistors
In 2001, there were 60 million transistors for every
human on the planet ...
… in 2010 there are 1 billion per human…
… each costing 1/10 millionth of a cent.
RFID
In 2005 there were 1.3 billion
RFID tags in circulation…
… in 2010 there are 33 billion.
Intelligent
INTELLIGENT
The amount of information produced by the
interaction of all those things will be
unprecedented.
Warsaw
New computing models can handle the
proliferation of end-user devices, sensors
and actuators and connect them with backend systems.
With advanced analytics we can turn
mountains of data into intelligence…
that can be translated into action, making
our systems, processes and infrastructures
more efficient, productive and responsive.
Governing SP
How does infrastructure get smarter
on a smart planet?
Smarter Infrastructure
Building or renewing a bridge today
means making sure the bridge can tell
us, over its lifetime, how it’s feeling…
Smarter Grids
Malta is creating one of the most
advanced smart power grids, and
building smarter water and waste
management systems.
Broadband deployment
Communities with
broadband fare better
economically. Broadband
over power line projects
can connect rural
America without major
disruption.
Smarter Grids
Your washing machine will bid for
electricity. And your neighbor’s solar
cells might provide it.
Building intelligence into utilities lowers
costs and better balances the grid. Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory reduced
homeowners’ costs up to 10 percent by
turning ordinary thermostats into day
traders for energy.
Smart grid
Smarter Energy
Energy saving solar
technology will be built
into asphalt, paint and
windows.
Water
Smarter Water
Smarter ways to manage water supplies …
providing analytics and research capabilities
on the behavior of watersheds and the impact
of human activities on freshwater supplies…
…an example is the Hudson River network of
integrated sensors, robotics and computation.
Supply chain
Smarter Supply Chains
Innovative tracking systems do more than help
shippers manage supply chains - they improve
utilisation and monitor the condition of
container contents...
…temperature and humidity readings, intrusion
alerts, quicker customs clearance and more …
food
Smarter Food Tracking
A food tracking solution (this one the first
of its kind in the Nordics) uses RFID to
track and trace meat and poultry from the
farm, through the supply chain, to
supermarket shelves.
traffic
Smarter Traffic
Brisbane, London, Singapore and Stockholm
are deploying smarter traffic systems. At least
20 other cities have active bids to do the same.
Stockholm has seen approximately 20 percent
less traffic, a 12 percent drop in emissions
and a reported 40,000 additional daily users of
public transportation.
Law enf
Smarter Law Enforcement
Cities are digitizing their law enforcement
practices and deploying smarter
surveillance systems …
… for example, using audio sensors to
direct cameras to locate gunshots,
determine the caliber of gun fired and
pinpoint its exact location, to aid in
dispatch.
fire
Smarter Safety
Collect and share real time data on
building inspections, link with
maintenance databases… provide
firefighters with up to date information
where and when they need it
Medicine
Smarter Medicine
A “Google Earth for the body”?
Your personal medical avatar:
providing dynamic health
status in real time, allowing
doctors to visualize patient
medical records in an entirely
new way
telemedicine
Smarter Delivery of Care
Convergence of medical
services and consumer
electronics – care at a
distance
V Web
Smarter Web.
You will talk to the Web. And it will
talk back. Voice-enabled mobile
commerce... “voice sites” helping the
illiterate, the elderly, the economically
disadvantaged, to do business.
shopping
Smarter Shopping
You will have your own
personal digital shopping
assistant.
(Think about this for
government).
computing
Smarter Computing
Just when you thought
you had your data centre
strategy straight…
A cost-effective platform
and a game-changing
enabler of transformation
greener
Smarter Greener Computing
The largest supercomputer
center in Europe - flexibly
designed state of the art
technology, built, powered and
cooled within 1600 square in a
beautiful 18th century church.
infrastructure
Smarter Work.
People, learning, and development
Workforce development, schools
modernization, teleworking…
Example - “Green jobs” from
environmental assessment
IBM and ER
IBM PartnerWorld Program
• On a smarter planet, clients want to team
with companies who can speak the
language of their industry, and deliver
solutions that address their specific
business challenges. Clients no longer
seek products to solve problems, they
seek solutions to help differentiate
themselves in their market places.
IBM PartnerWorld Program
http://www2000.ibm.com/partnerworld
Join PartnerWorld
• Team with IBM and put the power of one of the world's
most respected technology brands behind your
business.
• http://www-2000.ibm.com/partnerworld
• To Join Partner World – Three Steps:
Step 1: Register for an IBM ID
Step 2: Register your company
Step 3: Add employees to your company's membership
PartnerWorld Program Benefits
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Marketing
Selling
Technical
Training
Collaboration
Membership Levels
Member:
• Entry point for Business Partners to participate in PartnerWorld.
Benefit: Introductory enablement and go to market benefits.
Advanced:
• Awarded for demonstrating advanced skills and market success.
Benefit: Enhanced marketing, sales and skills support, technical
enablement benefits.
Premier:
• Granted for demonstrating exceptional skills and market success.
Benefit: Access to premium marketing and selling benefits, technical
enablement and support.
IBM DeveloperWorks
• developerWorks is dedicated to helping the
developer community build a Smarter Planet
and features resources to get you started
learning about Cloud computing, New
intelligence, Dynamic infrastructure, Smart work,
and Green IT.
• Eight million developers in 195 countries use
developerWorks, with language support in
English, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Korean,
Vietnamese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish.
IBM DeveloperWorks
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks
is the Web-based professional network and
technical resource for millions of developers, IT
professionals, and students worldwide.
Since 1999, developerWorks has been a top
destination for IT professionals, providing the
industry’s most comprehensive source for
technical content, trial code, and forums.
developerWorks helps you stay ahead of the
latest trends in open standards so that you can
develop skills, solve problems, and work
collaboratively with peers.
Depth and breadth of technical
content
• developerWorks provides an extensive, easy-tosearch technical library to help you get up to
speed on the most critical technologies affecting
your profession.
• Maintain your professional edge and improve
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Tutorials and skill kits
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Thank You!
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