This deck was presented at the Convergence 2011 conference, the premier conference in India for Information & Communications Technology. It talks about how an instrumented, interconnected and intelligent world can lead to advances in a wide range of industries from urban planning, healthcare and food distribution.

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Let’s Build a
Smarter Planet
Convergence 2011, New Delhi
Partha Bose
IBM Global Business Services
March 26, 2011

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The need for progress is clear.
170 billion
Kilowatt-hours wasted each year by
consumers due to insufficient power
usage information.

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The opportunity for progress is clear.
Utility networks: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
In the Smart Gridproject, consumers decreased their overall
peak load on the grid by 15% when offered the opportunityto
save an average of 10% on their electricity bills.
10%
REDUCTION IN ENERGY COSTS

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The need for progress is clear.
Annual impact of congested roadways
in the U.S. alone.
3.7 billion lost hours
2.3 billion gallons of gasoline

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The opportunity for progress is clear.
Traffic system: Stockholm, Sweden
The city cut traffic by 20%, lowered emissions by 12% and
reported 40,000 additional daily users of public transportation.
20%
LESS TRAFFIC

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This mandate for change is a mandate for smart.

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The world is about to get
a whole lot smarter.

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Our world is becoming
INSTRUMENTED
Our world is becoming
INTERCONNECTED
Virtually all things, processes and ways
of working are becoming
INTELLIGENT

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INSTRUMENTED
We now have the ability to measure, sense
and see the exact condition of virtually
everything.
 An estimated 2 billion people will be on the Web
by 2011.
 By 2010, 30 billion RFID tags will be embedded
into our world and across entire ecosystems.
 Mobile data traffic will roughly double each year
from 2008 through 2012.
Everything will become instrumented:
supply chains, healthcare networks,
cities and even natural systems like rivers.

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INTERCONNECTED
People, systems, and objects can
communicate and interact with each
other in entirely new ways.
 Numbers joining online social networking sites
with active memberships is forecast to reach
500m+ by 2012.
 Mobile phone subscribers crossed 4 billion in
2010.
 More than 550 million GPS-enabled handsets
will be used by 2012.
The Internet of things—cars, appliances,
cameras, roadways, pipeline,
pharmaceuticals and even livestock—is
headed to 1 trillion.

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INTELLIGENT
We can respond to changes quickly
and accurately, and get better results
by predicting and optimizing for
future events.
 Total IP traffic for 2012 will amount to more than
half a zettabyte (or 522 exabytes). A zettabyte is
a trillion gigabytes.
 Global IP traffic will increase by a factor of
six from 2007 to 2012.
 Video on demand, IP television and Internet
TV will account for nearly 90 percent of all
consumer IP traffic in 2012.
New computing models manage the
massive amounts of data generated by the
proliferation of end-user devices, sensors, and
actuators. Combined with advanced analytics,
these technologies are making
us smarter.

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An opportunity to think and act in new ways—
economically, socially and technically.

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A smarter planet requires a smarter communications infrastructure.

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Smarter Traffic
A smarter planet requires a smarter communications infrastructure.
Smarter Traffic Systems
are enabled by
Smarter Communications Infrastructure
Traffic isn't just a line of cars: it's a web of connections
among cars, buses, crossings, streets, bridges,
intersections, signs, signals and tolls.
Smarter traffic systems will rely on the connection of these
transportation elements through a strong communications
infrastructure as well as intelligent communications
capabilities such as presence and location.

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Smarter Healthcare
A smarter planet requires a smarter communications infrastructure.
Smarter Healthcare Systems
are enabled by
Smarter Communications Infrastructure
Success in automating patient records, sharing patient
data, conducting remote diagnostics, and more depend
on fast and robust Telecom infrastructure and systems.
Smarter healthcare systems will rely on intelligence
known only to the service provider such as subscriber
preferences, presence and location.

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Smarter Food
A smarter planet requires a smarter communications infrastructure.
Smarter Food Systems
are enabled by
Smarter Communications Infrastructure
Smarter food suppliers are improving food safety by
using RFID technology to track and trace food from the
farm, through the supply chain, to supermarket shelves.
Smarter food systems will depend on a communications
infrastructure capable of integrating and delivering
information to and from a variety of new devices
and systems.

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A smarter planet holds enormous
promise for progress.

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