A Sense of a Smarter PlanetDr. Matthias KaiserswerthDirector and Vice PresidentIBM Research - Zurich

•Welcome to a smarter planet

•Who gets it?

•Wireless sensors made easy

•Summary

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The world is smaller. The world is flatter. The world is about toget a whole lot smarter.

Why?

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Our world is becoming

INSTRUMENTEDOur world is becoming

INTERCONNECTEDVirtually all things, processes and waysof working are becoming

INTELLIGENT

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+ + =An opportunity to think and act in new ways—

economically, socially and technically.

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1 billion transistors for each person on earth.

30 billion RFID tags already embedded.

1 trillion things connected to the net.

Using the cloud to provision computing resources. 6

WHY?

Only 20–30% of reserves are extracted from the world’s existing oil wells.

In our healthcare systems, electronic health records could save 100,000 lives a year.

Weather-related events inflicted $1 trillion in damage from 1980 to 2003.

40-70% =Estimated lossesof electrical energy because grid systems are not smart.

In one small business district in Los Angeles alone, cars burned 47,000 gallons of gasoline just looking for parking.

WHY?

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Smart oil fields Smarter traffic

WHY?BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO.

Smarter water management

Smarter food supply

Smarter buildings Smarter healthcare

Smarter oil fields Smarter energy

Smarter banking

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WHO GETS IT?

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Replacing 250,000 analog electric meters with smarter meters that monitor electricity usage near real time, identify water leaks and electricity losses, set variable rates, and reward customers who consume less power.

MALTA

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On the island of Bornholm, IBM is helping to develop smart technologies that synchronize the charging of electric vehicles and homes with the availability of wind energy in the electric grid.

DENMARK

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WIRELESS SENSORS

MADE EASY

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Spatially distributed autonomous devices using sensors and actuators to cooperatively monitor and react to physical or environmental conditions.

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CHALLENGES

•Potentially very limited resources - power, memory, energy

•Not easy to use or program, even for computer scientists

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Introducing IBM Mote Runner

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Open: Provide an open “standard” to spark an ecosystem and free for academiaDownload at alphaworks.ibm.com

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Power Efficient: Makes “best” use of the available resources, 8 bit processor, 8 KB RAM, 128 KB Flash

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Dynamic: Can be dynamically configured and reconfigured in the field.

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Scalable and Integrated: Can be deployed on a wide range of motes and is part of a large infrastructure.

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Accessible: Can be programmed in a state-of-the-art way by computer scientists; can be deployed and used by domain specialists

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On-Mote Architecture

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Mote Runner:Bird’s Eye View

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Mote Runner: Complier Tool ChainMote Runner: Complier Tool Chain

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EU project, using Mote Runner, to create an easy to use platform to connect any object with a sensor to the Internet. Pilot will include monitoring vital patient statistics in Spain.

INTERNET OF THINGSARCHITECTURE

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Summary

•The technology is available•The opportunities are being forced upon all

of us to act•Collaboration between academia,

government and industry can make it happen•Try Mote Runner -

www.alphaworks.ibm.com

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