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vehicles enter busy zones of cities, improving soldier safety.
IOT/IOT
traffic conditions and raising revenues.
With 350 million public employees in
THE DATA CENTER
“With more of the world’s population the world, IoE applications that improve
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moving into urban centers daily, cities employee productivity across state, local and Continued from page 3
which are helping the city save money and must become more flexible and responsive non-defense federal agencies can generate Unprecedented scale including 1M end-
improve the quality of service to citizens.
to citizen needs, while making the most significant value. For example, increased points, 55K+ 10G ports, 64K+ tenants.
Cities globally have the potential to of public resources,” said Wim Elfrink, use of telework solutions could create an Built in dynamic load balancing and priori-
claim $1.9 Trillion in value from IoE over Cisco’s EVP of industry solutions and estimated $125 Billion in value by lowering tization removes network bottlenecks and
the next decade, according to Cisco’s study. chief globalisation officer. “The Internet of Everything is transforming how cities real-estate, printing and other costs. These same solutions improve employee retention can enhance application completion time
Cities can capture much of this value by implementing “killer apps”:
deliver services and how citizens interact and productivity, and provide additional from 30 - 90%.
Smart buildings are poised to gener- with government.”
employment opportunities.
Security: Improves application security,
ate $100B by lowering operating costs by Beyond cities, the benefits of IoE extend “Public-sector leaders are under tremen- compliance, auditing, and mobility through
reducing energy consumption through the to governments at almost every level dous pressure to bridge the gap between centralized, programmable policy, enabling
integration of HVAC and other systems.
according to the study:
rising citizen expectations and shrinking fine grained control and isolation at scale
Gas monitoring could generate $69B by State agencies have the potential to real- resources,” said Martin McPhee, Cisco’s suitable for multitenant private and public
reducing meter-reading costs and increas- ize $682 Billion in value by applying IoE SVP for Consulting Services. “IoE solu- cloud environments; open platform enables
ing the accuracy of readings for citizens solutions to processes like bridge mainte- tions have the potential to change every- a broad security ecosystem driving innova-
and municipal utility agencies.
nance, offender transport, chronic disease thing. Public sector leaders should act now tion in security management automation,
Smart parking could create $41B by pro- management, connected learning and wild- to identify major IoE opportunities in their visibility, and choice including Cisco’s new
viding real-time visibility into the availabil- fire suppression.
agencies, and begin by reimagining what is ASAv.
ity of parking spaces across a city. Residents Non-defense federal agencies could cap- possible in an IoE world.”
Real-timeVisibilityandTroubleshooting:
can identify and reserve the closest available ture $472 Billion through IoE solutions to The study builds on research released Complete, real-time view of per tenant
space, traffic wardens can identify non- improve disaster response, fleet manage- by Cisco in Feb. 2013 which identified and per application health, statistics, and
compliant usage, and municipalities can ment, cybersecurity and many other areas.
potential profits of $14.4 Trillion for pri- troubleshooting across physical and virtual
introduce demand-based pricing.
Defense forces globally can improve the vate companies that embrace IoE over the infrastructure, real-time analytics driving
Water management could generate $39B effectiveness of military missions through next decade. When combined with $4.6T of intelligent application placement decisions.
by connecting the household water meter secure connection and information sharing potential value in the public sector, IoE is Ability to monitor and isolate packet drops
over an IP network to provide remote infor- among soldiers, bases, vehicles and battle- a $19T opportunity for businesses and gov- by application at a system level to acceler-
mation on use and status.
field assets. Improved connections among ernments globally over the next decade. ☎
ate problem resolution. ☎
Road pricing could create $18Bin new rev- defense forces globally could generate $1.5 You can find the full report at internetofeverything.com
More details will be released over the coming months.
enues by implementing automatic payments as
Trillion in value and measurably enhance

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