by Brianna Crandall — March 7, 2011—IBM introduced its latest software and other developments in its Integrated Service Management platform at the Pulse2011 conference in Las Vegas. The software is designed to help bring a new level of intelligence to the world’s physical infrastructure.
The Integrated Service Management platform, based on IBM’s Tivoli framework, includes a range of software products, systems, best practices and expertise, all aimed at advancing advance smarter cities and industry transformation across water, energy, transportation and healthcare industries by monitoring and analyzing new streams of data.
IBM notes that the growing ubiquity of sensors, smart grid networks, RFID tags and 4G wireless networks, smartphones and tablets is transforming everyday objects in the physical world into “smart” ones with information on their history, location and status. This is creating new streams of data for organizations to drive more data-based decisions and business transformation.
IBM’s expertise in analytics, systems management and sensors bridges the physical and digital worlds and gleans actionable intelligence, creating new intelligent infrastructures critical for organizations to operate more efficiently.
The new platform includes:
- Smarter buildings software that helps organizations to optimize their buildings’ energy and equipment efficiency, including a new feature from Esri that helps building managers visualize their buildings from an aerial view and zoom in to locate a boiler or air handler that isn’t functioning;
- Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus, analytics software for monitoring telecommunications, transportation, or any network that distributes data such as escalators for metros, ATMs for banks, and refrigerators for grocery chains;
- IBM Intelligent Metering Network Management, which monitors and manages smart meter networks for energy, water and gas utilities; and
- IBM Real-Time Asset Locator for Healthcare, which helps hospitals optimize asset usage and track clinical, biomedical and other high-value equipment.
