Sunday, December 16, 2012

2012 City of Zhenjiang - China and IBM Collaborate to Build a Smarter City

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ZHENJIANG FACT SHEET By 2020 the Asia-Pacific smart city technology market will be worth .5 billion annually - a cumulative investment of over billion between 2010 and 2020, according to Pike Research. China represents the largest single market in Asia for smart city technology, roughly 30% of the total opportunity. Consider the staggering facts: • By 2025, seven of the world's top ten megacities will be in Asia and two-thirds of China's population—an estimated 64%—will live in cities. • Currently, more than one hundred cities in China plan to build smart cities, an effective combination of information technology and advanced concepts of city operation in which the government will use digital network management to provide more convenient and efficient public administration services. • The number of cars in China, now 25 million, is growing 25% a year, creating a traffic crises. New roads and expressways across China can't be built fast enough to keep up with the growth. • By some estimates China is building more public transit systems than all other nations combined. And yet still, that won't be enough. As part of the city's "Smarter Zhenjiang, Smarter Tourism" project, IBM is helping to transform the city's public transportation system with the IBM Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) -- a solution that will serve as the central point of command for the city. A key component of the Smarter Zhenjiang project is a bus scheduling system which will help increase the ...

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