PTC demonstrated smart city solutions from several partners at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2016. Partners showcased solutions focused on water, utilities, lighting, city services, and buildings using PTC's ThingWorx IoT platform. ThingWorx enables partners to rapidly develop robust smart city applications by normalizing sensor data and connecting diverse systems. PTC aims to make ThingWorx central to smart city infrastructure worldwide.

1. PTC Demonstrates IndustryLeadership in Smart Cities at Smart City Expo
World Congress 2016
Several ThingWorx Partners Demonstrating New Smart City Solutions at PTC Booth
BARCELONA & NEEDHAM, Mass. – November 14, 2016 –– PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) today
announced its participation at Smart City Expo World Congress 2016, where it will feature several
new smart city solutions that have been built by partners using the ThingWorx®
Internet of Things
(IoT) platform. PTC will have demonstrations of smart city solutions focused on water, utilities,
lighting, city services, and buildings at the ThingWorx booth, F632.
At the ThingWorx booth, the following ThingWorx partners will be showcasing their smart city
solutions:
 Itron – Smart energy solution that optimizes solar installations via IoT field area
communications and smart sensing infrastructure.
 AquamatiX – Smart water solutions capable of monitoring and optimizing a city’s water
and sewage services.
 Synapse Wireless – The SimplySNAP smart lighting solution enables the development,
control, and optimization of a smart lighting implementation.
 Tech Mahindra –Smart city solutions and services to enable offerings such as smart energy
management, smart parking, smart waste bins, smart street lighting, and security &
surveillance.
 WiseUp – A smart building solution that monitors, analyzes and manages building data to
improve energy usage, maintenance, operations, and comfort.
Additional ThingWorx-poweredsmart city solutions include ThingFarm’s smart water and smart air
quality offerings that provide real-timepollution monitoring with alerts, rules, and notifications,
availablefor demonstration at Libelium’s booth, E505. Further, DEPsys’ smart grid solution for
monitoring, control, and optimization of the modern low voltage network will be on display at
European Utility Week, co-located with Smart City Expo World Congress 2016 at the Fira Barcelona
Gran Via.
ThingWorx serves as the foundational platform that these partner companies use to rapidly and
economically build robust smart city solutions and complementary IoT applications. The ThingWorx
platform enables the rapid creation and deployment of new IoT applications and is well suited to
normalize and optimizecomplex sets of sensors, devices, assets, and software solutions, forging a
cohesive group of systems for use in smart city solutions.
“Smart cities represent a unique opportunity to apply the power of IoT to our everyday
environments, and to improve the quality of the very roads, buildings, and public services that we
use each day,” said Kevin O’Brien, vice president of IoT partner sales, PTC. “We want our ThingWorx

2. platform to be at the core of the infrastructure of smart cities, enabling companies selling their
solutions to cities around the world to build their solutions with speed, ease, and quality.”
“We chose the ThingWorx platform because we want to rapidly develop applications that our
customers want and scale them at a rate consistent with the interest that we are seeing,” said Dr.
Roberto Aiello, managing director, Itron Idea Labs.
“The ThingWorx platform is an essential component of our smart water solution,” said Laurie
Reynolds, managing director, AquamatiX. “ThingWorx provides all of the necessary IoT platform
components, allowing us to focus on our expertise and applications in clean and waste water
management, and deliver the most robust and cost effective solution to the cities, utilities, water
service, and industrial companies that we work with.”
Connect with PTC at Smart City Expo World Congress 2016
At Smart City Expo World Congress 2016, PTC will demonstrate these ThingWorx partner smart city
solutions at the ThingWorx booth, F632. To meet with PTC at Smart City Expo World Congress
2016, please contact Glenn Sinclair, partner program manager at gsinclair@ptc.com.
PTC Leadership in Smart Cities and the IoT Partner Ecosystem Continues with ThingEvents
PTC will further demonstrate its leadership in enabling smart city solutions with two ThingWorx
partner ThingEvents during the week of November 14, 2016.
The ThingEvents will bring together members of the ThingWorx partner ecosystem for a day of
presentations and content about the ongoing development of smart cities, and how collaborations
between technology providers and solution builders will more rapidly advance development,
implementation, and the path to business value. There is no cost to attend the ThingEvents.
The first ThingEvent will be held on Wednesday, November 16, 2016, at FC Barcelona Stadium in
Barcelona, Spain. Please contact Melissa DiEgidio, marketing programmanager, at
mdiegidio@ptc.com for more information about attending.
The second ThingEvent will be held on Thursday, November 17, 2016 at the W Hotel in San
Francisco, California. Please contact Kathy Kelleher, senior marketing programmanager, at
kkelleher@ptc.com for more information about attending.
Additional Resources
 Harvard Business Review: “How Smart, Connected Products are Transforming Companies,”
authors PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann and Harvard Professor Michael Porter
 ThingWorx Internet of Things Platform
 ThingWorx Partner Ecosystem

3. About PTC (NASDAQ: PTC)
PTC has the most robust Internet of Things technology in the world. In 1986 we revolutionized
digital 3D design, and in 1998 were first to market with Internet-based PLM. Now our leading IoT
and AR platform and field-proven solutions bring together the physical and digital worlds to
reinvent the way you create, operate, and service products. With PTC, global manufacturers and an
ecosystem of partners and developers can capitalize on the promise of the IoT today and drive the
future of innovation.
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