Video: How can we make infrastructure smart?
“In the US alone trillions of dollars have been invested in civil infrastructure, in bridges, in roads, in water systems, in sewers. The American Society of Civil Engineers finds that most of this infrastructure is in poor condition.”
In this World Economic Forum IdeasLab video, recorded during the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2014, James H. Garrett Jr., from Carnegie Mellon University, discusses how we can make infrastructure smart using big data.
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The Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2015 takes place in Dalian, People’s Republic of China, from 9th-11th September 2015.
Author: James H. Garrett Jr. is Dean of the College of Engineering and is the Thomas Lord Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
Image: Newly-built residential buildings are seen next to the partially-frozen Songhua River and a bridge in Jilin, Jilin province February 3, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer
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