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Five Advances in City Networks Coming Soon

Posted by: Tim Halbur

18 December 2009 - 8:00am

Adam Christensen of IBM's Smarter Planet blog predicts five ways that cities are going to become smarter by networking their environment.

Christensen writes, "Analytics will predict the patterns of how diseases will spread, will enable buildings to evaluate the relationships between their systems and provide real-time information to management, will enable city smart grids to draw on clean energy during peak and off peak hours, find water leaks and more efficient ways to move water, and predict emergencies before they happen to limit their impact."

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Source: IBM's Smarter Planet blog, December 17, 2009
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