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We know this because IBM is building these
systems today, in collaboration with forward-
thinking clients around the world. In them, we
can see a foreshadowing of how banking will
work, how telecommunications will work, how
energy, healthcare, transportation and retail will
work. We can see a world that is becoming
smarter before our eyes.
: Stockholm’s intelligent
trafc system, created by IBM, has resulted in
20 percent less gridlock, a 12-percent drop
in emissions and a reported 40,000 additional
daily users of public transport. IBM is building
smart trafc systems in cities from London
to Brisbane to Singapore
—
with many more
being planned.
: IBM today is leading
seven of the world’s top ten automated meter
management projects. Our intelligent utility
network with CenterPoint Energy enables
remote sensing and operation of the electric grid,
connection and disconnection of service, fewer
and shorter outages, improved customer service
and the integration of new, environmentally
friendly power sources such as wind and solar
—
as well as the charging of plug-in electric
vehicles. In Malta, we will build the world’s rst
national smart grid, which will also instrument
and monitor the country’s water systems.
: The cost of therapy
is being lowered by as much as 90 percent.
For example, IBM technology is being used to
monitor the proper delivery of injections
and vaccines to more than 2 million patients in
38 states. And, partnering with Google and the
Continua Health Alliance, we have introduced
software that will enable data from personal
medical devices to feed a patient’s electronic
health record.
: IBM built a system
for Norway’s largest food supplier that uses
RFID technology to trace meat and poultry from
the farm, through the supply chain, all the way
to supermarket shelves.
: Foreign currency exchange is
the world’s largest single market. Thanks to a
smart nancial system IBM developed, intraday
settlement risk for more than $2 trillion in daily
volume
—
more than 60 percent of the world’s
foreign exchange transactions
—
has been
effectively eliminated. And through technology-
enabled micronance, organizations like
Grameen Foundation and Financial Information
Network and Operations Ltd. (FINO) are
providing poor people around the world with
collateral-free loans and nancial services to
support income-generating businesses.
: IBM is
helping traditional telecom service providers,
mobile and broadband operators and broad-
casters transform their networks and services.
IBM’s solutions are being used in India to deliver
new services dynamically to support 185 million
mobile phone subscribers
—
more than half of the
total Indian market for mobile services.