Towards a Smarter Planet

Two decades ago, power lines installed in the housing became one of the icons of modernization, the symbol of progress. But now, as more power lines around the housing in major cities to remote areas, whether it mean?

Wire network that meets the city in Indonesia was no longer a symbol of progress. For electricity providers, the longer the network means greater losses, due to leakage and production costs that do not comply. For society, it became a symbol of uncertainty because the electricity often die suddenly. Sometimes there is notification, but more die suddenly.

When it should be with the more extensive network of electricity, people live more comfortably, increasing quality.

All that is pictured as a conference covering the IBM Information on Demand 2009 on the third day when discussing the "Smarter Planet" (Planet Smarter) as proposed Steve Mills, Senior Vice President of Software and Group Executive IBM Software Group of IBM, in Las Vegas, United States States, the end of October.

According to Steve, supplies the world to become more intelligent is sufficient. Because, the world now terinstrumentasi and connected. "Almost all the products terinstrumentasi, 60 years ago, a milestone in transistor digital era, there are now 1 billion transistors that cost more cheaply, it is estimated there are 4 billion mobile phone subscribers and 30 billion labels identification (radio frequency identification / RFID) will be produced in the next two years, "he said.

In line with these developments, the community will also be increasingly connected. Users Facebook, Twitter, and other networking sites jumped dramatically from time to time. "Around one trillion terinstrumentasi items connected with the car, the camera device, highways, pipelines and even in the tunnel. It's what this planet deserves more intelligent," he said.

New potential

Steve describes how today's application programs are installed only on computers, cell phones, and other digital media is not enough to further improve the quality of human life. Everything new is the potential that can be achieved if the analysis (analytics) so that problems can be resolved through the development of solutions of certain software as needed.

Not surprisingly, IBM's software division is now more developed than the hardware, especially PCs they've sold to Lenovo a few years ago. In addition to his own try to find a variety of programs and new discoveries, IBM also continues to make acquisitions of software companies are assessed prospectively and matched with the needs of technology companies that have 400,000 employees throughout the world.

In 2007, IBM invested more than 5 billion dollars in various software companies to enhance its market. One company was recently acquired Cognos, a leader in the software business intelligence segment. Previous year with almost the same value, the company nicknamed Big Blue is taking over MRO Software, Internet Security Systems and FileNet.

Inspiring

Electricity network in this country actually still be a symbol of progress and become more intelligent. The conditions are: first, data on electricity demand should be clear, after determining the company's production capacity for menyuplainya. Do not stop at this stage, so that efficient firms should be able to properly control the use of electricity by the public. Do not let that happen they put 2200 watts of electrical power, but only uses only 1000 watts.

One of the IBM service user in the field of health is the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, United States. In order to diagnose disease patients with a quick and precise, the Mayo Clinic in collaboration with IBM to apply a number of additional hardware and software equipment.

Indonesia marketing expert, Hermawan Kertajaya, happened once checkups at Mayo. When he arrived at the clinic, he met with the physician coordinator who enter the health records into a computer Hermawan. "Then he determines, any tests I should do. Also, what specialist should I see. Remarkably, every time a test or consultation, the results can be directly entered into the computer. So, the process is going very efficient from the time. Everything can be done in parallel. Team work can also be a way despite all the doctors had never met at all, "Hermawan said in his New Wave Marketing, The World is Still Round, The Market is Already Flat.

Various applications we have in the computer sometimes only half useful. In fact, it may be society or the government will be an impasse with the hundreds of incoming information.

Disclosure and use of information technology can even make hard decisions are made and a lot of public policy in limbo. In this case it needs some more steps to integrate the new devices had the potential to be manifested into a new force. New powers that can make decisions more quickly, precisely, as needed, and efficient. Some examples of IBM conducted inspire many to get to the planet more intelligent.