Innovation for a Smarter Planet
- When?
- Thursday 20 January 2011, 13:00
- Where?
- 45A AZ 04
- Open to:
- Public, Staff, Students
- Speaker:
- Dr Andy Stanford-Clark Chief Technology Officer, Smarter Energy, IBM Global Business Services
Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Master Inventor, will introduce technology which is helping to make the planet smarter: instrumenting objects in the real world with sensors, linking them together over a network, and then applying intelligent applications to reason about what's happening, and how to react accordingly.
Andy will illustrate this "smarter planet" vision with features of his home automation system, including monitoring power consumption and water usage, remote control of electrical appliances from his mobile phone, and his electronic mouse traps! He will describe other applications of this technology, including vehicle telematics and the intriguing world of "tweetjects" - objects that Twitter.
Prof. Andy Stanford-Clark is the Chief Technology Officer for Energy and Utilities for IBM Global Business Services, UK and Ireland. He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and "Master Inventor" with more than 40 patents. Andy is based at IBM's Hursley Park laboratories in the UK, and specialises in remote telemetry, energy monitoring and management, Smart Metering and Smarter Planet technologies. Andy has a BSc in Computing and Mathematics, and a PhD in Computer Science. He is a visiting professor at the University of Newcastle and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.