Smart City (Physical Digital Computing)
Car 2.0 (Physical Digital Computing)
Smart Retail /
Physical Digital Retail
"IBM, Cisco, Hitachi, Siemens, and others have taken aim at this market, publicizing successful examples of cities that have used their technology to tackle the challenges of parking, traffic, transportation, weather, energy use, water management, and policing. Cities already spend a billion dollars a year on these systems, and that’s expected to grow to $12 billion a year or more in the next 10 years.
In India, where the urban population is predicted to increase from 31 percent of the total to 38 percent by 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to invest $1.2 billion in 100 new and retrofitted smart cities.
But in the western textile city of Surat, population five million, relatively inexpensive technology is making the greatest difference. A flood warning system uses temperature, rainfall, wind speed, and other data captured by new automated weather stations, combined with information from river gauges, satellites, and other sources, to create models of the nearby Tapti River and Ukai reservoir. It cost less than $500,000 to set up, plus some land donated by the city, but the system was able to warn citizens two days before floods struck during the 2013 rainy season, giving them time to buy groceries and drive to high ground.
A second project, connecting health workers around the region to centralized data via the Internet and SMS, has helped the health department predict outbreaks of malaria, viral hepatitis, dengue fever, and leptospirosis and take action to prevent their spread. Since its launch in 2010, the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics in Boston has focused on small-scale initiatives that exploit technology and data, aiming to pull people into a practice it calls “participatory urbanism.”
The office’s first project was Citizens Connect, a digital hotline that allows people to use their smartphones to report trash, graffiti, and service problems to City Hall."
Car 2.0 (Physical Digital Computing)
Smart Retail /
Physical Digital Retail
[Remark: Smart Retail is smart, connected entities inside Physical Stores that enhance customer experience, by e.g.,
- providing both physical retail and E-commerce experience,
- connecting with the users" smartphones,
- displaying personalized ads,
- Providing services through Intelligent displays, etc.
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