Energy and Life Sciences: A Role for ICT

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Energy and Life Sciences A Role for ICT

• Alberta Advanced Education Technology
• VIP Seminar Series 2006 - 2007
• Speaker Terry Tarle, TELUS Business Solutions
• February 28th, 2007

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Overview

• Information Communication Technology (ICT)
  market drivers
• Business Applications improving productivity
• Technology Trends whats next?
• Opportunities for ICT innovation and growth in
  Albertas Energy and Life Sciences sectors
• Barriers to success with recommendations to
  remove them
• Summary
• Questions?

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My Background

• 30 years in ICT
• 9.5 yrs Municipal, Provincial and Federal
  Government
• 13 yrs running my own high tech company (35
  employees)
• 7 yrs with System Integrator (1,000 employees)
• 0.5 yrs with TELUS (30,000 employees)
• Regional Director TELUS Business Solutions
• National Director TELUS Geomatics Business
  Solutions
• President of CIG
• Member of ISO TC211
• Director Alberta SDW board (TELUS)
• Presentation will focused on my area of
  expertise
• Mobile Web-based Business Applications

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ICT Market Size

• World Wide 2,654B (2004)
• 1,192B (45) IT
• 1,462B (55) Telcom
• Canada IT - 37.5B (2005)
• 43 IT Services
• 14 Spending by Governments (Feds 5.5B, Prov.
  Local 2.5B)
• Canada IT growing 6 to 7 per yr. to 2010 ?
  45.3B (IDC)
• Fastest growing segment
• wireless communication
• Portals web services
• LBS
• Mobile business applications
• The remaining presentation will focus on this

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Market Drivers ? Producing demand for..

• Aging Workforce ? automation, asset management,
  workflow, content management
• Climate Change ? no/low GHG energy tech (clean
  tech)
• Public Safety Concerns ? information sharing,
  emergency management, security technology
• Aging Assets ? remote monitoring, real-time
  monitoring, sensors, decision support

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Market Drivers ? Producing demand for..

• Increase Demand for info sharing ?
  interoperability standards, portals, web
  services, new partnership governance models,
  (capture once, use many times)
• Increase expectation for info services on the
  Web (free) ? portals, web services, content
  management
• Increase in Mobile Workforce (anywhere/anytime
  access to info services) ? wireless networks,
  mobile business applications, LBS, portals,
  content management

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More on Mobile Workforce
Global Mobile Phone Users
3 B
1.6 B
2004
2009
2004
2009

• Source Gartner Research 2005, Radicatti 2005
• Visto Business Inbox training

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Mobile Business Applications Improving
productivity
Field Service
Sales Force Automation
Real Estate
Inspections
Financial Services
Healthcare
Public Safety
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Mobile Business Applications Examples ? Benefits

• Life Sciences Health
• Community Care Management Solution (Health Phone)
• Access secure patient information at the point of
  care
• More appointments per day
• Instant update (wireless) of information
  collected
• Info captured once at source available to all
  immediately
• Wireless Wound Care (Pixalere)
• Allowing specialists to make virtual house
  calls
• Homecare clinicians consult with specialists from
  the point of care
• Reduced recovery time and cost
• Emergency management / notification
• Notify caregivers citizens in the event of
  pandemics, outbreaks, etc.
• Reduce exposure to threat
• Improve communications

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Mobile Business Applications Examples ? Benefits

• Life Science - Resource Management (Forestry,
  Agriculture, etc.)
• Field Inspection
• Capture and transmit on-site inspection reports
  to office
• reduce time required to access and process
  information
• reduces errors, and increases productivity and
  performance
• Timber Trax
• Log loader wireless connection to logging truck
  (populates info weight)
• Reduced overload fines
• Computes gas tax credit based on time on private
  roads
• Optimizes routing to sorting yards

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Mobile Business Applications Examples ? Benefits

• Energy
• Wireless Ticketing
• Securely transmit and receive field
  information in real-time
• Quicker more accurate billing
• Fewer errors and less loss of information
• Fleet monitoring and tracking
• Improve operational efficiency and safety
  (speeding, seatbelt usage, etc)
• Protect valuable assets from theft
• Reduce fuel consumption, fines and liability
• Worker Alone (Legislated in Alberta elsewhere)
• Employer must establish an effective means of
  communication between the worker and persons
  capable of responding to the workers needs
• Increase safety of worker
• Reduce liability

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Technology Trend ? Location Based Services

• Culmination of 5 Technologies
• Wireless Network
• PDA and Mobile Devices
• GPS Other Positioning Technology
• Web Services and Wireless GIS Technology
• Mobile Business Applications

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Technology Trends ? What's Next!

• Three Major Themes
• It will get harder to get away from it all!
• It will get easier to find (track and monitor)
  things!
• It will get harder to get lost!

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Theme 1 Harder to get away from it all!

• Web Services
• Web1 ? Web 2
• .a system without an owner, tied together by a
  set of protocols, open standards and agreements
  for cooperation
• Could rival Microsoft
• Wireless Networks
• Wireline ? Wireless ? LBS
• 3G ? 4G ? faster, cheaper, better coverage, wider
  bandwidth
• PDAs and Mobile Devices
• Faster, cheaper, richer functionality
• Always connected to office home
• Mid-air messaging coming soon (HP Bristol Lab in
  UK)

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Theme 2 Easier to find (track and monitor)
things!

• Kid Find
• Ability to locate your children in real-time
  using GPS technology
• Subscription service 5 per month
• Fleet management and tracking
• Simply tracking becoming a commodity
• Cell phone / handset tracking ? 0.00
• Microsoft Mappoint Virtual Earth
• Advanced systems include sensors and integration
  with mobile apps.
• Asset Tracking
• RFID, bar code readers, VIN scanners, other
  sensors getting cheaper better
• Integration with AVL and Inventory systems
  (mobile asset tracking)
• Honda Canada example

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More on RFID Technology (Source IDTechEx , Feb.
2007)

• 3.7 Billion RFID tags sold over last 60 years
• 1.0 Billion sold in 2006 _at_ average price of 1.40
  ea 1.4B
• (Growth Areas for 2007 Bolded)
• 35 Smart cards/payment key FOBs (2.20 ea)
• 20 Pallet/case (0.17 ea)
• 7 Animals (2.00 ea)
• 6.5 Smart tickets/banknotes/secure docs (0.20
  ea)
• 5 Books (0.35 ea)
• 5 Retail apparel (0.20 ea)
• 4.6 Car Clickers 1.00 ea)
• 2.5 Air Baggage (0.20 ea)
• 2.5 Passport page (4.00 ea)
• Real-time locating systems using active RFID ?
  6B by 2017

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Theme 3 harder to get lost!

• Location Based Services - Culmination of 5
  Technologies
• Wireless Network, PDA and Mobile Devices (above),
  plus
• GPS Other Positioning Technology
• Built into cell phones, vehicles and other assets
  (trailers, etc.)
• Assisted GPS ? improved accuracy (uses cell tower
  triangulation)
• Web Services Wireless GIS Technology
• GIS client getting thinner and thinner
• Heavy lifting in dB back office system (Oracle
  Spatial)
• Map spatial query result published via standard
  web service (WMS)
• Mobile Business Applications
• There will be a large increase in the number of
  Mobile Business Apps.
• Other Examples
• Google Earth, MapQuest, Virtual Earth, TELUS
  Navigator (driving directions on your cell)

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Opportunities for Alberta 2 Related WADs

• Integrated Resource Asset Management Portal
• Share common information across all levels of
  government and the private and NGO sectors
  (expand on SDW concept)
• Capture once, use many times
• Breakdown information silos
• Improved access to current, accurate and
  authoritative information
• Reduce information management costs
• Enable LBS and Mobile Business Applications
  Innovation in Energy Life Science Sectors in
  Alberta
• Made in Alberta LBS and Mobile Business
  Applications
• Portal (WAD 1) would make location (base map) and
  Energy Life Science Sectors information
  accessible to LBS and Mobile Business
  Applications
• Government, industry and academia partner to help
  foster innovation and growth in the ICT LBS and
  Mobile Business Applications development areas

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More on the IRAM Portal
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More on the IRAM Portal Conceptual Model
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Barriers to WAD ? Recommendations to remove

• Lack of
• Fund via cost savings from economy of scale,
  reduction of duplicate effort and systems
  (capture once, use many times) and via 3P (extend
  SDW model)
• Treat Spatial Data Backbone and other
  information as part of Albertas Critical
  Infrastructure and manage it accordingly
• Be good customer for innovative ICT companies
  (i.e. demand quality and pay fair price not
  hand outs)
• Improve tax incentives for made in Alberta
  innovation including encouraging SME / Major
  Business / Academia synergistic partnerships
  (TELUS/Spira example)
• Lack of Focus
• Identify core competency (market verticals) for
  Alberta and do this best
• Examples Portal, LBS, Energy Life Science
  Business Applications, RFID for Animals,
  Infrastructure and Assets, etc.

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Barriers to WAD ? Recommendations to remove

• Organizational Barriers
• Remove inter-governmental organization barriers
• 3P with true common goal and shared transparent
  risk/reward
• SME lack brand and recognition
• Improve tax incentives for made in Alberta
  innovation including encouraging SME / Major
  Business / Academia synergistic partnerships
  (TELUS/Spira example)
• Alberta Market is too small
• Trade missions and export programs to showcase
  Alberta innovative ICT companies and technology

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In Summary

• Market and Business Drivers combined with future
  trends expected in LBS and Web Technology will
  create significant opportunities for ICT
  Innovation and Growth in Albertas Energy and
  Life Sciences sectors
• Two related WADs have been identified that will
  leverage this opportunity
• Integrated Resource Asset Management Portal
• Made in Alberta LBS and Mobile Business
  Applications
• If the recommendation for removing the Barriers
  to success are followed, Alberta has the
  opportunity to be a Global Leader by establishing
  the Next Best Practice for
• Finding, tracking and monitoring things!

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Questions for the Audience

• Which new technologies or applications do you
  think will have the greatest impact on where you
  work?
• What impact will this have on your business?
• What do you think you can do to prepare?
• What do you think about the WAD?

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Questions for me?
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Appendix A Definitions

• GPS Global Positioning Systems
• AGPS Assisted Global Positioning Systems
• LBS Location Based Services
• PDA Personal Digital Assistant
• RFID Radio Frequency Identifiers
• Portal integrated, personalized and secure
  Web-based interface to information, applications,
  and collaborative services
• TLA Three Letter Acronym
• Web services new way of connecting business
• platform-neutral
• vendor-independent protocols
• enable any form of distributed processing to be
  performed using XML and Web-based technologies