This interview with Trevor Gibson from Opportunity Peterborough talks about their pilot project to map local environmental data to Google Earth as part of the IBM Smarter Cities project . Broadcast at 08:35 on Wednesday 17th March 2010 in Paul Stainton’s BBC Peterborough Breakfast Show.
This interview with Trevor Gibson from Opportunity Peterborough talks about their pilot project to map local environmental data to Google Earth as part of the IBM Smarter Cities project . Broadcast at 08:35 on Wednesday 17th March 2010 in Paul Stainton’s BBC Peterborough Breakfast Show.
PS: A new project which will monitor the carbon footprint of residents and businesses like you, me, him and her across the city has been launched. Opportunity Peterborough has teamed up with IBM to produce a website which will show energy and water usage along with recycling rates for wards across the city. It looks pretty impresive actually. There’s a picture in a local magazine this morning. It’s a first for the UK, and the dream is that it will turn Peterborough into the country’s leading sustainable city. Trevor Gibson is from Opportunity Peterborough. Good morning Trevor.
TG: Good morning.
PS: I like the look of this. It looks pretty good. It’s very pretty indeed. Does it cost us anything, first of all.
TG: Well it’s initially a partnership between Peterborough City Council and Opportunity Peterborough, paid for, a relatively small pilot actually, and IBM and Green Ventures, and Royal Haskoning have come on board and formed a sort of an association of consultancies, if you like, to work on something that we think will be really dramatic for the city, and is already being taken an interest in by many organisations outside of the UK.
PS: Yes. Can you explain what it is exactly, in layman’s terms?
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