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kleinbl00  ·  3230 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I.B.M. Takes ‘Smarter Cities’ Concept to Rio de Janeiro

Kinda weird how they're saying nobody does this - I built one of these for the City of Seattle in 2002. Giant video walls, bomb-proof power supply, the whole nine yards. Post 9/11 emergency services ended up with a massive influx of cash, and lots of cities built C&C centers like this.





veen  ·  3229 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, other cities are definitely doing similar things. I think Rio is unique in that it uses so much big data, runs that data through huge, powerful computers and uses the results for data-driven decision making.