SAN DIEGO, March 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Teradata (NYSE: TDC) today announced it is working
with Cisco on a digital transformation solution with a focus on
smart cities and communities. Combining the merits of Cisco's IoT
platform, Cisco Kinetic for Cities, with the Teradata Analytics
Platform, the solution will help cities become smarter and more
connected by providing a powerful solution for integrated data
exchange. The Cisco Kinetic for Cities platform excels at
collecting, aggregating and normalizing real-time data securely
across city networks. Teradata is among the first enterprise data
analytics companies to integrate with this platform to provide
smart data management, such as analytics, persistent data lifecycle
management and data enrichment, that delivers business insights to
cities and communities. Together, the two leaders in their
respective fields provide powerful tools that cities need to
improve efficiency, enhance public safety, deliver better citizen
services and create new revenue streams.
Data collection and management within a city is often
decentralized and stored in departmental silos, where each city
manager creates a "cockpit" of data and a set of tools for managing
specific city facilities. This approach makes it difficult, if not
impossible, to generate a city-wide view of the data. Disparate
data silos must be integrated to reveal insights about the city as
a whole. Only then can the data be used effectively to drive
predictive and prescriptive decision-making for a variety of urban
services, including lighting, parking, traffic and waste
management, citizen engagement, safety and security.
"Far too many cities do not fully recognize the value of their
data," said Anil Menon, Global President for Smart+Connected
Communities at Cisco. "With the Cisco Kinetic for Cities platform,
we aim to help cities think holistically about their city
infrastructure investments and the value of the data captured by
their connected assets, such as traffic cameras, parking meters and
environmental sensors. Once data is aggregated, customers using
Teradata's analytics can leverage the resulting contextualized
information to guide planning, monetization and broader economic
development efforts that keep cities livable, sustainable and
resilient."
Using Cisco Kinetic for Cities, cities can gather, aggregate and
normalize information from disparate and siloed city applications,
including but not limited to traffic, lighting and parking.
Combining this real-time sensor data with other city information,
such as data from payment systems, citizen sentiment and analytic
applications, Teradata is able to deliver prescriptive and
predictive analytics, as well as easy-to-comprehend visualizations,
that help city leaders make smarter, more informed decisions. Such
a combined solution could, for example, automatically detect
security incidents and generate alerts, locate traffic bottlenecks
and optimize signals to ease congestion or evaluate route options
to shorten emergency vehicle response time.
"Data is the foundation of value creation in today's digitally
enabled society," said Stephen
Brobst, Chief Technology Officer at Teradata. "Cities are
currently undergoing a seismic shift in thinking to recognize that
their data has real value that can enable new services and
capabilities to better serve their citizens and visitors.
Accomplishing this requires that smart cities tap into a
comprehensive and robust analytics ecosystem. Cisco and Teradata
platforms are cornerstones of such an ecosystem, which can empower
city managers to make better, data-driven decisions."
Stephen Brobst and Maciej Kranz, Vice
President, Strategic Innovation at Cisco, will be discussing
the foundational technology behind smart cities – IoT and connected
devices – today at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit
2018, in Grapevine, Texas. This
session will provide practical ways to start the IoT journey, with
examples of how to monetize data, drawing on decades of real-world
experience. The session runs from 3 - 3:45
p.m.
Relevant news links
- More about Teradata's IoT solutions and experience
- More about Cisco Kinetic for Cities
- Cisco announces $1B City
Infrastructure Financing Acceleration Program
- Teradata Unveils Powerful Analytics Platform
- Top Analyst Firms Name Teradata a Leader in Six Evaluation
Reports
- Cisco Retains Leading Positions in Navigant Research Assessment
of Smart City Suppliers
About Teradata
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outcomes. Our focus on business solutions for analytics, coupled
with our industry leading technology and architecture expertise,
can unleash the potential of great companies. Visit teradata.com.
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been making the Internet work since 1984. Our people, products, and
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