Items tagged: IBM

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App Savvy

February 2, 2012 - 10:14 am

When Mike Scarth at the Alberta WaterPortal became interested in mobile water applications (colloquially termed “apps”), he directed summer students to research what was available. The result of their findings culminated in a handy WaterPortal page that indexes water apps for iPhones, Android, and...

Categories: Features

Smarter Water

June 16, 2011 - 1:28 pm

At this week's Canadian Water Summit, IBM's Michael Sullivan highlighted SmartBay, one of the company's projects in Galway Bay, Ireland (watch a video about the project here). "We built a platform to allow stakeholders to see uniform data," he said. "We're streamlining real-time intelligence to allow...

Categories: Blog

Trendspotting

January 16, 2011 - 2:28 pm

Anyone interested in the business of water in Canada will be looking to Ontario to see what, if any, effect the recently passed Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act will have on the industry. With

Categories: Features

Infusing Intelligence

January 20, 2010 - 9:46 am

It's like the world is trying to tell us that the timing for our next issue on water infrastructure couldn't be better. First the burst next door, now this. On the eve of 2010, IBM released a video titled The Next 5 in 5—a list of five innovations that could change cities in the next five years...