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INFRASTRUCTURES* USA - Bringing Efficiency to
New York,NY,USA -The New York Times, by Steve Lohr -29 April 2009: -- Smart infrastructure--greener and more efficient systems for food distribution, railways, and electric grids--is emerging through the deployment of cheap sensors, computing muscle, and software for visualization and analytics... Computers have evolved into powerful tools for calculation and communication, and experts say the next phase is to transform computers into intelligent control instruments connected to data-producing sensors... IBM's smart grid programs employ sensors, software, and computerized household meters to maintain power lines and lower energy consumption, while IBM has a project with Norway's biggest food supplier that uses radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and tracking software over the Internet to optimize shipments and reduce spoilage... In Stockholm, IBM implemented a smart traffic monitoring system that uses Web cameras and RFID cards to reduce traffic in the city, thus lowering congestion and carbon dioxide emissions and increasing ridership on public transportation... Meanwhile, Cisco Systems has experimented with a project to encourage San Francisco commuters to use public transportation by offering a bus equipped with wireless Internet access and onboard touchscreens that are fed constantly updated data on connections and wait times... Smart infrastructure systems often face political opposition, as evidenced by New Yorkers' resistance to New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's proposal for a smart traffic system in Manhattan... Nevertheless, experts see smart infrastructure as having massive potential for efficiency upgrades. "We've barely scratched the surface of how information technology can help control and conserve energy use," says Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter... (Photo by Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times - ROAD MAP: At an I.B.M. lab in Hawthorne, N.Y., Jay Murdock demonstrates a traffic-management system similar to those used in Stockholm, Amsterdam and Singapore)Labels: infrastructures
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