IBM large data to solve water problem

IBM has launched a crowdsourcing project in partnership with the South African Watts to help capture and analyze information on water distribution systems in South Africa. The public participates in the project through mobile clients and text messaging, which can report the overall situation of leaky, ineffective water pipes and water supply channels through this project. Each update will provide important data points for the analysis of the "waterwatchers" mobile end to solve problems in the South African water distribution system.

Users can use Waterwatchers to take pictures and answer three simple questions about the water channel, and the data will be sent to the central database immediately. After 30 days, the data will be analyzed and a map of the South African high risk zone is being formed. The project is designed to analyze water use, predict water demand and manage future countries, said Ahmed Simjee, IBM's South African Wise Earth Executive.

This is a special practice project for the South African crowdsourcing model, and we encourage everyone to become "citizen scientist"--to try to do something for the environment, to help us create a national distribution map for high risk areas of water leakage and to solve related problems. Waterwatchers is a new way of data collection, analysis, and visualization for water planners in South Africa-a big data problem IBM is better at solving.

IBM had previously started exploring the use of crowdsourcing in San Jose, Calif., to address water issues, and the company involved Creekwatch's mobile side, which was widely used in 25 countries around the world. Waterwatchers borrowed the concept of Creekwatch and added features such as SMS messaging and sharing images to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

A waterwatchers-generated report provides a reference for local government, water and other departments after the data is properly filtered. This will help local governments anticipate and prioritize improvements to urban water facilities.

The problem of water use in China is also a thorny social problem, in China's large and medium-sized cities have different degrees of water problems and water facilities aging problems. With the advancement of urbanization, the population is constantly pouring into the city, the problem is deteriorating. The Government, enterprises, various organizations of public interest groups and the people in the ongoing efforts, but the problem has not been well resolved. The big data will start from a new perspective, break the traditional solution and bring new life to the water problem in China.

April 11, IBM in the software group in Greater China 2013 strategic launch announced that the 2013 large data analysis and mobile, social, cloud computing together to continue to "soft power" as the core of the development strategy, IBM Large data analysis will continue to provide the Chinese market with high-quality services.

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