VietNamNet Bridge – These solutions, based on cloud computing, help make the central Danang City’s operations more efficient.

Designed in collaboration with city leaders, the software also applies predictive analytics to help cities budget for improvements and improve the efficiency of water utilities.

Delivered via the IBM SmartCloud, an open platform that enables the secure exchange of information, the expanded IBM Smarter Cities Intelligent Operations software also helps reduce capital and technology costs.

This allows cities to adopt a pay-as-you-go approach to transforming city services at the city’s own pace, more efficiently using valuable taxpayer dollars. With cloud solutions, cities get started immediately, without specialized hardware or procurement delays, making it possible to begin with small projects and scale across departments using one integrated software system available as a service.

This means cities can adopt a pay-as-you-go approach to transforming city services at an appropriate, or affordable, pace and thereby efficiently use valuable taxpayer dollars. Thanks to the cloud, cities can get started immediately without specialised hardware or procurement delays, making it possible to start with small projects and scale across departments using one integrated software system (available as a service).

Waterfront Toronto, one of the largest waterfront revitalisation projects in the world, is using the technology via the SmartCloud to integrate multiple data sources and create real-time visualisations that deliver insights and create opportunities for collaboration.

Cambridge is another user, and as it is home to more than 250,000 infrastructure works valued at nearly $1.6 billion and with more than 1,200 miles of underground pipes, it is using the new software to plan future infrastructure and check millions of different pieces of information.

This information can be analysed, and solutions proposed.

The software also includes tools for financial planning of each project and Cambridge expects to cut down on its annual budget.

Danang recently announced that it had successfully implemented the first stage of IBM’s smarter traffic and water technology.

In May 2012, the city was the first in Vietnam to be selected, along with 33 others around the world as part of IBM’s $50 million Smarter City programme, to receive financing of $400,000 toward implementing the technology.

IBM experts supported municipal authorities in making a roadmap for building a smarter city with two sectors prioritized – water quality management and urban traffic management – for pilot implementation of IBM’s state-of-the-art technologies and solutions.

“The city is focusing on traffic and water quality challenges and IBM’s technology has alerted us to specific information and incidents that help authorities develop solutions and anticipate future problems, as well as better manage the city’s infrastructure,” said Pham Kim Son, director of Danang’s Department for Information and Communications.

Source: VIR