Smart uses digital technologies to connect people to services and services to infrastructure for more efficient use of resources

sources and
improved sustainability. There are six sectors that must work together to make smart cities efficient and sustainable. Smart
City Energy | Smart Water | Smart Mobility | Smart buildings | Smart public services | Smart Integration

Enabling Technologies Challenges

Sensors | Cameras | Semantic interoperability
| Internet of things
Blockchain
Cloud & Edge computing
Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence
Virtual, artificial & “mixed” reality
Etc.
What will make it sustainable?
Technology advancement to bring down initial costs
and make the process more sustainable
Nimble State & Citizen Participation to stay current to
accommodate technology disruptions to ensure that
city’s smart features don’t fall behind
Sensors: Although prices for sensors are falling, the enormous number that
needs to be deployed to create smart cities seems formidable
Power: An efficient solution to power these sensors are also required.
Frequent replacements or wiring to the electric grid seems infeasible
Security: Fully integrated systems make the entire system more vulnerable
to security risks. Systemwide viruses, data theft, shutdowns, ransomware
attack, etc.
Cost: Initial cost involved to retrofit technologies to accommodate
existing infrastructure into the smart city as well as the ongoing cost to
maintain infrastructure.
Data: Smart cities would need all data on individuals on the cloud, it is a
huge ask in the midst of data privacy concerns and upcoming data privacy
laws.
Sustainability: Remaining viable amid the rapid pace of technological
change would be a challenge.

Smart functioning cities emerging in North America, Europe, and Asia. Starts with intelligent solutions in one particular sector, and
extended over time to include intelligent solutions across other sectors.
Smart city examples
RIO DE JANEIRO(Safety to attract new business) | BOSTON(Connecting citizens with city services) | HONG KONG(focus on ICT)
Connected health refers to a method of healthcare management that leverages technology for the delivery of healthcare
services or management of medical conditions. Digital technologies, including wearables and app, enables access to medical
knowledge, empowering people to self-diagnose, self-treat, and even head off illness.

Some examples of connected health include remote patient monitoring (RPM), decentralized clinical trials (DCTs), mobile personal
emergency response systems (mPERS), and telemedicine.

Enabling Technologies:
Sensors | Cameras | Data Analysis | Bluetooth | Wi-Fi | Cloud & Edge computing | Artificial Intelligence

Challenges involved:
Accuracy | Interoperability | Privacy | Responsibility | Payment | Regulations
Eventually, these challenges will work themselves out (mostly via tech) as connected health becomes the rule more than the exception.

Healthcare today:
The current system is designed primarily to serve the needs of healthcare providers, not consumers. There is opacity in the entire
process. Top-down autocratic approach.

Healthcare in the future (connected health):

Empowered patients, partnered in healthcare decisions, helping them to better choose which providers to see, self-diagnose, etc.
Preventive health care: By virtue of wearables, we can track an increasingly broad range of behaviors including Heart Rate, Blood
Pressure, Blood glucose levels, Heart conditions, Sleep patterns, Stress levels, Weight, Activity levels, etc.
Electronic health record: Digital health records are available both to the patient and medical practitioners at a click of a button.
Increased efficiency of practitioner: reducing paperwork, speeding up consultations, better-informed diagnosis.
 IIOT “Industrial Internet of the Things” uses disruptive technologies such as embedded sensors, big data, cloud, and analytics to
derive specific industrial insights and outcomes across diverse and highly regulated industrial markets.

Why IIOT Why IIOT Gains in operational insights and increased cross-functional collaboration leading to process improvements, cost
savings, advanced detection, asset/plant/fleet level optimization, and new data-rich digital services.

High volume unlabelled, unstructured, and fragmented data | Lack of asset-centric analytics | Integration with legacy systems | Only
Challenges Cloud-based solutions not always optimal

GE’s PREDIX
Predix platform | Predix Edge | Predix cloud | Industrial grade Cyber Security

 Distributed Intelligence
 Asset Connectivity & Management
 Digital Twins
 Analytics & Machine Learning
 Bid data fabric
 Security
Platform  Application Development & Extensions
 Predix cloud can handle vast amounts of industrial
internet information, while also managing customer
SLAs, security, support, governance, compliance,
and export controls.

Core Industrial Services

Asset | Data | Analytics | Application Security | UI

Digital Twin
 Asset model
Subsystems and components as network
 Analytics
Predict, describe and prescribe behavior Predix Connectivity
Predix Edge technology enables applications,  Knowledge base
analytics, and services to execute close to the asset Seamless, secure, reliable end-to-end
Data sources and derived insights communication between Predix edge
and data. It also provides security, authentication,
and governance services. devices and Predix cloud

 Connect to assets and data of any vendor Predix Industrial big data fabric
 Process data at the edge Data fabric encompassing data ingestion,
Enables low-latency application big data processing, and flexible storage
Analytics execution at the edge
Reduce data and bandwidth costs Predix Cyber Security
Predictive maintenance alerts  High level of security and data governance
 Manage the device lifecycle  Security is embedded at every layer of
Authorized users | roles & responsibility Predix platform
Device configuration | device groups  Design of Platform | Application
Monitor device health, settings, history, etc development process | Continuous
monitoring