Fulvio Capogrosso
IBM Distinguished Engineer
Building a Smarter Planet
In crisis times interesting things happen:
There is a feeling of discontinuity
There is a strong call for “change”
There is a vast opportunity for leadership
...and very important questions are being asked.....
Which “change”? In which direction?
How can we enable “Innovation that matters” ?
Which role for “Technology” ?
A lot of “change” is already happening on the Planet.....
...fast....everywhere
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Global integration
Global climate change
Environmental and geopolitical issues surrounding energy
New dimension of security issues
• The world is becoming ‘smaller’
• The world is becoming “interconnected”
• There is a lot of “smartness” available
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Can we make the Planet SMARTER ?
“A Smarter Planet: The Next Leadership Agenda”
by Samuel J. Palmisano, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM
Corporation
Remarks at The Council on Foreign Relations, New York City, November 6, 2008
Why a Smarter Planet initiative now:
Because it is possible: the technology is there
available and affordable
Because it is necessary: the current approaches have
proven not to be sustainable
Because now is the right time and it’s the right thing to
do
Four Key Themes for a Smarter Planet
New Intelligence
How to take advantage of the wealth of information available
from the new smart and connected devices and make more
intelligent real-time choices
Macro level societal
and industry trends
Green & Beyond
How to align our goals and behaviour with the new
responsibilities so that caring for the planet and its people is
no longer perceived as generosity or sacrifice
Smart Work
How to work smarter supported by flexible and dynamic
processes modeled for the new way people buy, live & work
Dynamic Infrastructure
How to create an infrastructure that drives down cost, is
intelligent and secure, and is just as dynamic as today’s business
climate
Customer top challenges
and issues
IBM value propositions
and solutions
The Smarter Planet Initiative in Italy: Living in a Smart Town
A suite of citizen-centric solutions to deliver superior value services
Mobility Services
Administrative Services
Safe Town
Citizen
Operations Effectiveness
Social Services
Cultural & Natural Heritage
Administrative Services
delivering services through a second
generation Digital Government and
Virtual Tellers
– Ticketing
– Services and Payment Portals
– Citizen Registry Services
– Electronic ID card
Operation Effectiveness
Internal services compliant with Government
guidelines for innovation PA 2.0
– Tax receeipt management
– Citizen registry
– Dematerialization of paper documents
– Management systems
– Software re-use
– Open Source
Safe Town
Delivering security through an intelligent
surveillance network
– Video surveilllance
– Storage and analysis of recorded data
– Control room
– Traffic lights and licence plates management
– Biometric Access Control Systems
Cultural and Natural Heritage
Delivering solutions for preservation
and further development
–Theathres project
–Digital Library
–Extended Tourist register
–Bi-dimensional tags for monuments and parks
Mobility Services
Innovative approach to the
management of urban traffic
–Infomobility
–Mobile payment systems (Pagososta, Pagobus)
–Infotraffic
–Monitoring Limited Access
Social Services
Human centric solutions for citizens
–Workforce mobility
–Fixed-mobile network convergence
–Services for the Disabled (Domotic)
–Virtual multi-service teller
In 2001 there were 60 million transistors for every human. By 2010 there will be 1 billion transistors
per human – and each one will cost about one ten-millionth of a cent.
An estimated 2 billion people will be on the Web by 2011.
We are heading toward one trillion connected objects – cars, appliances, cameras, roadways, pipelines
– comprising “the Internet of things.”
3G devices – those capable of high-speed Internet access and video telephony – are expected to grow
by 32 percent by 2011.
Smart phone shipments are growing 25 percent annually and are expected to reach 150 million units by
2009.
An estimated 2 billion Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags were sold in 2007, embedded in
products, passports, buildings – even animals. By 2010 there may be 30 billion produced globally.
IBM’s Roadrunner supercomputer broke the “petaflop” barrier – one thousand trillion calculations per
second. Roadrunner is made from the same chips that go into consumer game consoles and the no-cost
operating system Linux.
“Cloud computing” is emerging as the means to connect and provision the proliferating array of enduser devices, sensors and actuators with powerful, massively scaleable back-end systems.
• U.S. Consumer Packaged Goods companies and retailers lose $40 billion annually due to inefficient
supply chains.
• In North America, up to 22 percent of total port volume is empty containers. The Port of Jersey has
100,000 empty containers sitting in storage – worth nearly $200 million.
• In the United States alone, 2.2 million dispensing errors are made a year because of handwritten
prescriptions.
• The U.S. healthcare system loses more than $100 billion a year to fraud.
• In a small business district in Los Angeles, driving around for parking in one year generated the
equivalent of 38 trips around the world, burned 47,000 gallons of gas, emitted 730 tons of carbon
dioxide.
• Congested roadways cost $78 billion annually in the form of 4.2 billion lost hours and 2.9 billion
gallons of wasted gas.
• In six years the power consumption of a server has risen from 8 watts to more than 100 watts per
$1,000 worth of technology.
• On average, for every 100 units of energy piped into a data center, only 3 units are used for actual
computing. More than half goes to cooling the servers.