The document discusses how digital technologies and data can help address sustainability issues like reducing CO2 emissions and increasing climate change resilience. It provides examples of how technologies like the Internet of Things, analytics, and cognitive computing can give insights into issues like energy usage, transportation flows, and infrastructure management. These insights can then be used to improve operational efficiency, better prepare for and respond to events, and foster new forms of collaboration. The document argues that, with the right approaches and by treating data as a new natural resource, digital technologies have the potential to significantly reduce CO2 emissions from various economic sectors and help build more climate resilient systems.
3. The issues of
sustainability , C02 emissions and climate change resilience
are to significant extent
information issues:
Peter Williams
CTO: IBM Big Green Innovations
For
CO2 & Climate Change:
• What damage are we causing?
• What might happen if we continue
that damage?
• How can we mitigate the damage ?
• Is our mitigation working?
For
Climate Change Resilience :
• What might happen?
• What will break?
• How can we mitigate the risk?
• Are we on track with our plans?
• What just broke?
• Who/what needs help first?
4. Looking at Global CO2
Bad News Good News
2% 98%
Use of IT accounts for
2% of C02 emissions
Use of IT can significantly
control and reduce the other 98%
emissions caused by other sources
5. What is driving the change?
It is estimate …
1 billion transistors per human
Each costing
1/10 millionth of a cent.
7. An opportunity to think and
act in new ways :
economically, socially and
environmentally.
+ + =
A Smarter Planet
Something profound is happening….
Instrumented
Interconnected
Intelligent
8. As a New Natural Resource
Data is changing quickly
VolumeofData
PercentageofUncertaindata
9. 9
Big Data
This is then amplified by a network effect,
combining technologies in new ways
Source: Bill Chamberlin
Cloud
Virtualization
Social Business
Mobile
Data Visualization
Green IT
Analytics
Consumerization
BYOD
Digital Marketing
Cognitive Computing
IoT
Gamification
Security
10. 10
Look for the triangles
for new interesting innovations …
Source: Bill Chamberlin
Mobile
Data Visualization
Analytics
IoT
12. 3 Patterns that enable
C02 reduction AND increased performance
Operational Efficiency Incident/Event Management
Planned
Maintenance Asset Failure Extreme
Weather
GOAL:- Situational awareness to keep on track GOAL:- information & processes to better respond
Incidents
GOAL:- connecting BOTH people AND systems
to drive collaboration
Intelligent
Operations
Better Collaboration and Response
13. • Situational awareness
• Analytics
• Smarter response
Foresight examples:
• Cave Man
• Agricultural Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• Digital Revolution
• Environmental Revolution
What is it that drives the ability to change the system?
Foresight
15. Using Biomimicry
Self Assembly Molecular Chemistry to Increase
Energy Efficiency of Computer Chips
By more precise insulation layers
IBM POWER Processor“Air Gap” Chip Technology
Designing like snowflakes and sea shells
17. IBM & Airlight Energy
Poly-generation: Electricity, Heat, Cooling
18. Solar Concentrator = Sun x 2000
• Simple Materials: concrete structure, Plastic foil film mirrors
• High efficiency solar cells
• Supercomputer Cooling
Output = 50% overall system
efficiency
12 kwatts of electrical power
20 kwatts of heat (on a sunny day)
Hot Water at over 85 DegC
http://www.ted.com/watch/ted-institute/ted-ibm/gianluca-ambrosetti-solving-the-energy-
crisis-one-sunflower-at-a-time
20. 1. Moving from guessing to knowing
2. Connecting a network of people, systems and data to
create collective insight
3. Making sense of large amounts of data – in space and time
4. Evidence based decisions at pace
5. Ability to apply the right tools:
• Automate the simple
• Make sense of the complicated through analytics
• Make sense of the complex & unpredictable through visualisation
5 Smarter City Essentials
for making cities more efficient :
21. City in motion:
monitoring using existing data to design better solutions
Istanbul:
Movement Analysis using
Vodafone network data
• 2.4 million phones w. 156 million events/week
• Origin Destination analysis
• Accurate detection of meaningful locations
• Used for new metro line planning
Dubuque, USA:
Bus Route Optimization
Optimized routes will:
• Reduce OPEX and CO2 by 40%
• Generated 37% more demand
• Reduce average commuter travel time by 60%
22. Seeing the Whole System: Dublin Bus Network
Public Transport Awareness Tool
used by citizens and planners
‘Open Data’ + ‘Big Data’
35. Why the IoT will be important:
http://jackuldrich.com/blog/internet-information-tech/10-unexpected-ways-the-internet-of-things-will-open-up-a-future-of-opportunity/
Thanks to Jack Uldrich
37. Fine Scale Thermal Management:
IBM Data Centre Sites :
All of our Strategic Data Centres use this (4M sq ft)
Saving 300 MkWhours per year through data (10% Reduction)
• Tecomms Cell Towers
• Hospitals
• Public Building
39. What is needed in the
future?
Data by itself doesn’t do anything
without some creativity…
this is where you come in.
40. Principles in Information Science will be of use:
1. Whole system design (not sub)
2. Caching (clever use of read ahead)
3. Pipelining (fine scale priority management)
4. Real-time awareness (always monitoring and optimising)
5. Distributed inputs (creating systemic resilience)
6. The importance of storage in the system
7. Keeping things pure / Design for disassembly
A B CFrom Linear To Network
We need to find the ‘Moore’s Law’ for CO2
relentless performance improvement ‘doing more with different’
A
E
B
D
C
41. Cognitive Computing:
People Compute
power
AutomationPeople
Compute
power
Programming
• Natural Language
• Unstructured data
• Confidence levels
• Feedback by design
Computing is Changing:
How could this be used to reduce CO2?
Programming:
Imagine:
Doing 10,000 weeks of reading
in 15 seconds
and understanding all the relationships !
Ingest
Learn
Test
Experience
42. Jump to One Example:
• Watson Debater
• Watson Analytics
• Watson Discovery
• Watson Engagement Advisor
• Watson Healthcare
• Watson API
43. Replace Energy, Resources and CO2
With Information and Design
The grand challenge is to…
In summary:
“Digital Changes Everything”
that’s when
45. Augmenting Products with Data
Products
Data
Codifying a distinctive service capability
(Products become services)
+
industry Bindustry A
New insight
& value
= Combining data within and across industries
New insight
& value
trading Data Trading
DataAssets
Digitising assets
Data replaces the use of product or service:
• Less energy
• Less Resources
• Less cost (human intervention)
Data
Products
Composable components
(Products, assets, services)
Finer scale products & services enabled by data:
• Accuracy
• Control
• Feedback
• Complexity
Data
DataData
Homework: Using data to enable a new low carbon economy
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46. Foresight creating a network of benefits
Where projects in one domain create multiple benefits in other domains
Energy
Management
Pipe Failure
Prediction
Distributed incident
management
Leakage
management
Customer
Portal
Situational
Awareness
Meter data
analytics
External Data
Weather
Impact and
recovery
Understanding
the system dynamics
using data
Example from Water Utility