Enterprise Tech Spotlight: Smart cities, Grid Wide, M-City, cloud agility
The Internet of Things made headlines again this week with a huge amount of ink dedicated to progress in smart city solutions, smart energy technology and autonomous vehicles. This week, I'm spotlighting three articles showcasing IoT solutions and strategies, including municipalities partnering to launch smart city initiatives, the release of Verizon’s Grid Wide Utility Solutions and M-City, a test facility that the University of Michigan opened to fuel research in vehicle-to-vehicle/infrastructure communications. I also included a pair of stories on CIO.com documenting what analytics and digital data mean to the end customer and how cloud propelled Altisource in their recent IT transformation.
3 Smart Cities in Action
There’s been much discussion lately about the potential of “smart cities” and connecting data to help make communities more efficient, productive, sustainable and secure. Several municipalities are forming public-private partnerships to launch smart city initiatives. (govtech.com)
Verizon’s Internet of Things Vision: Modernize the Grid
These days, it seems like pretty much every information technology is sold as a service. Why not smart grid applications? That’s the latest vision of Verizon’s Internet of Things division, which has become far more aggressive in the past several years when it comes to developing services focused on several industries, including energy and utility companies. (GreenBiz)
Someday Your Phone May Stop an Oncoming Car
M-City, a test facility that the University of Michigan opened this month in Ann Arbor, packs a range of street configurations and road conditions into a 32-acre (13-hectare) facility for testing emerging automotive technologies. The site includes stoplights, traffic circles, gravel and brick roadways and movable building facades. It will play host to some of the testing for vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) detection systems that Verizon Communications hopes to turn into a commercial reality. (ComputerWorld)
Digital Enterprises are Getting Very Personal With Customers
The in-depth, graphics-driven Boston Heart Diagnostic Reports are customized for specific individuals, and cardiologists sit down with patients to review them. The reports address patients directly, using their first names, and deliver one-to-one information about their health status, including actions to consider. (CIO.com)
How to Find Agility in the Cloud
When Girish Juneja left his position as CTO of the Datacenter Software division at Intel to take on the role of CTO of global financial services and business services company Altisource in January 2014, Altisource was struggling with a problem many companies would love to have — it was growing so fast that IT operations was having trouble keeping up. (CIO.com)
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