OREANDA-NEWS. July 23, 2015. Siemens is a global leader in electrification and automation systems, urban infrastructure, and health care solutions, and is a major driving force behind research and development in these areas. Examples such as the Riyadh subway system illustrate that digital services such as real-time optimized spacing between trains constitutes a major growth dynamic. Indeed, experts here are forecasting growth of seven to nine percent per year for rail-associated digital services. In addition, the market for other digital services, such as data-based forecasts for asset management applications, is expanding rapidly, as is that for vertical software such as Siemens’ Comos data platform for optimizing industrial facilities and syngo medical-imaging software.

Whether it’s the temperature of a flame in a gas turbine, the speed of a locomotive, or the capacity of a power grid — our reality is increasingly being depicted and managed in zeros and ones. This trend can hardly be expected to let up, given the fact that the computing power and data storage and transfer capacity of microchips is expected to increase another thousand-fold over the next 30 years. The consequences of such a development are already apparent, as we can no longer imagine our daily private and professional lives without digital machines. For example, a tablet computer can be used to read newspapers and magazines, turn off the lights in your backyard, control a robot, or monitor an entire power plant.