Smarter cities – cities of almost any size can now go digital, with all the efficiency gains that brings
I attended an IBM Smarter Cities analyst event last week, and it was, not surprisingly, very interesting. What is the whole rationale behind making cities smarter? Well, there are a number of factors. For one, the world’s population has doubled in the last 40 years (from 3.5 billion to almost 7 billion). And with the […]
IBM’s Smarter Buildings and Smarter Cities announcements
Smart buildings are a topic I’m interested in and so I devote significant coverage to them on this blog. One of the reasons for that is that, for example, in the US alone, buildings are responsible for about 70% of the energy consumption and for about 40% of the greenhouse gases emitted and by 2025, […]
