We’re putting the platform to work for live events, webcasts and new kinds of online video programming, and also collecting clips into libraries such as Smarter Healthcare, Smarter Cities, Smarter Energy and of course the new intelligence of Smarter Analytics.
You can embed or share the channel, libraries and clips in many new ways, so stop by. We planning more exciting live webcasts and events, so stay tuned!
Truck 2020: Overcoming turbulent times for sustainable prosperity. In the face of multidimensional challenges, the truck industry finds itself in need of immediate transformation.
IBM Debuts Food Traceability iPhone App | ReadWriteWeb IBM will demo a new app that will bring the Internet of Things to the iPhone. The as yet unreleased iPhone app is called Breadcrumbs and it will give consumers access to information about grocery food items. The app will be able to scan barcodes and deliver a summary of the ingredients in a food item, along with when it was manufactured. That data is usually on the food label, but Breadcrumbs goes a step further - it can provide extra information such as product recall data. If a product has been recalled in the past, this app will tell the consumer all of the relevant details. Breadcrumbs is able to scan barcodes using the iPhone’s camera.
Guy Blissett Senior Managing Consultant, Global Consumer Products Industry, IBM
Phil Lempert The Supermarket Guru®
David Acheson, M.D., F.R.C.P. Former FDA Associate Commissioner
Moderator: Elliot Markowitz Editorial Director, Nielsen Business Media Webcasts/Digital Events
Beef. Peanut butter. Baby food. Cookie dough. These are just some of the high profile recalls we’ve seen in the last year. Consumers worldwide are worried—and rightly so. Is their food safe? And where did it come from?
IBM’s IdeaWatch Food
deaWatchFood explores the future of food and the pursuit of a smarter and safer food system, including - quality, global availability, manufacturing, retailing, distribution, sourcing and sustainability. If you have a business interest in food - then you have a stake in a smarter food system. Subscribe to IdeaWatchFood to receive the latest information on industry-leading research, technology, news and events - delivered directly to your InBox each month. The future of food starts today.
…IBM is also partnering with New York-based Tumblr to launch the Smarter Cities Scan, a social media project in crowdsourced research and open knowledge exchange. The initiative is using advanced IBM analytics technology to scan participants’ input to build a public blueprint for Smarter Cities. The output will be available to cities and grass-roots groups to use as a foundation for projects to make urban centers smarter via a Smarter Cities Open Model. IBM will also leverage this open model via the IBM Business Analytics Center in New York and the other centers around the world.
Survey all 120+ posts this month. Or check out the Archive to see previous months and sample some of the more than 1400 items we’ve generated in our first year. For a bit of serendipitous search, try the Random button.
Stephen Von Worley @ Weather Sealed compiled this rather spectacular infographic using a list of all 13,000+ US locations of McDonald’s (the “barometer of cookie-cutter commercialism creep”) in order to determine where true wilderness lies within the lower 48.
The result?
Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot: 107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald’s, as the crow flies, and 145 miles by car!
ClimateMinder Monitors Conditions at Farms, Greenhouses, Warehouses
ClimateMinder is a wireless climate monitoring and control system for agriculture. It utilizes machine-to-machine mobile network technology to transmit data from the field directly to growers’ mobile phones, computers and control systems.
The mobile technology enables farmers to receive alerts to conditions that may threaten crops and to take timely action - even when located at great distances from fields and greenhouses.
Window Farms is a project that helps people grow food in urban windows through crowdsourced research and development of DIY hydroponic vertical gardening. windowfarms.org
