Manage resources at a macro level

Intelligent systems go beyond the operations of individual businesses. By gathering, synthesizing and applying information in new ways, organizations can help create wholesale shifts in entire industries and governments—making them more efficient, more intelligent, and more sustainable.

IBM is working with organizations to create intelligent systems that optimize resources at the macro level (smart grids, water, traffic) and at the product development level, providing actionable, time-relevant data to gain insights and inform forward-looking decisions. Automate, monitor and control two-way flow of energy from power plant to plug. Help prevent outages, restore outages faster, enable consumers to manage energy usage. Create transportation systems that optimize for traffic flow and decreased CO2 emissions. Use predictive analytics for better water management. Suggest corrective action. The competitive advantage created by this new way of thinking can be enormous; the impact to our planet is now.