Powering the Road to Smart Cities
Blog: The Tibco Blog
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Based on an interview of Erich Gerber originally published on GovInsider Asia.
Smart cities leverage digital technologies to become intelligent, connected, and predictive—so they can quickly solve problems and optimize the urban environment. To do this, smart cities must gather vast amounts of data from multiple data sources including Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as traffic lights and parking sensors when optimizing traffic flows.
However, it is rather complex to interconnect IoT platforms, and there are different methods of interpreting data types (which leads to unused data). Without the ability to collect, draw insights from, and act on data quickly, leaders lose the opportunity to make their city truly smart.
TIBCO’s solutions enable interoperability and accessibility among information systems for centralized control over a smart city ecosystem. This can benefit cities in several ways.
- It allows information and communication among various IoT devices and platforms to flow, leading to more effective data usage and thus a greater citizen experience.
- It lets city leaders be more data-driven and responsive, especially in the face of a crisis.
- And with TIBCO’s smart city framework, built on TIBCO Connected Intelligence, leaders can combine smart IoT infrastructure and complex event processing (CEP) to drive innovation in the cities of tomorrow.
Use a Smart IoT Infrastructure
Cities need efficient ways to sieve through their scores of collected data for better insights. This is crucial to predict event patterns, provide better public services, and reduce the challenges that come with running a modern city. To maximize the capabilities of smart cities, leaders should use a solution that reduces complexity, controls critical functions, adapts to new operating models, automates manual processes, and improves visibility.
A smart IoT infrastructure can help create connection solutions that lead to reduced costs and new revenue streams—something city leaders should notice. Simplifying and automating processes yields more efficient data streams that will build a truly functional smart city.
Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG), which generates approximately half the electricity for Ontario, Canada, used TIBCO to integrate their project data to deliver complex, multi-billion dollar nuclear programs on time and on budget. Proudly one of the largest clean power producers in North America, OPG was able to accomplish this feat while operating three other reactors at world-class performance.
Learn More with CEP
Governments have recognized that massive, continuous data mining capabilities are required to transform metropolitan areas into smart cities. With the continuous need to process data streams to produce actionable insights in real-time, new technologies such as complex event processing (CEP) were developed to process multiple data sources and extract relevant information in a timely manner.
Unlike traditional event processing that typically does not involve relating findings to historical data, CEP makes inferences based on data taken from multiple data sources—treating all events as potentially significant and recording them asynchronously.
In a smart city, every “event” is observed, recorded, and processed along with other event sources to identify and predict event patterns or complex events, producing data that can be further used and processed by CEP engines. Leveraging real-time contextual information influences outcomes with faster action and enables a smart city to run at top speed.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) turned to TIBCO to drive evidence-based environmental and business decisions. To bring its disparate data sources together, SEPA chose TIBCO software to provide powerful visualizations, web-based analytics, and data science capabilities. This led to greater collaboration, key performance indicators for the agency, and new scientific applications for the benefit of the environment.
TIBCO’s Vision for Smart Cities
TIBCO’s smart city framework includes embedding intelligence into edge devices and acting on data in real-time to project better outcomes. TIBCO provides advanced analytics solutions, including data visualization, visual analytics, and data science capabilities for a clear understanding of data and insights, and enabling intelligent data-driven decisions for smart cities.
NASA benefited from using TIBCO’s framework. Before TIBCO, NASA was still using Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, and PDFs, which increased duplicates and data inaccuracies. With TIBCO, the agency successfully increased productivity and improved reporting accuracy and confidence—extending and scaling NASA’s technology to where it is today.
With TIBCO’s smart city framework, built on TIBCO Connected Intelligence, leaders can combine smart IoT infrastructure and complex event processing (CEP) to drive innovation in the cities of tomorrow.
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