Analytical software will find leaks and move water more efficiently.
IBM’s Smarter Planet Blog (Adam Christensen, social media communications manager, IBM) looks to the future and makes “five predictions of technological trends that will change the way we live in the next five years”.
- Cities will have healthier immune systems
- City buildings will sense and respond like living organisms
- Cars and city buses will run on empty
- Smarter systems will quench cities’ thirst for water and save energy
- Cities will respond to a crisis — even before receiving an emergency phone call
RoadMap: Read the blog post and the elaborations on each prediction
CentreLine: Canadian cities are centres of innovation and creativity, driving the economy and creating the necessary wealth to raise the living standards of citizens.
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