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Measure, manage, and operationalize your sustainability goals – including decarbonization, energy resources management, and reduced WAGES.
Achieve operations visibility and AI-based optimization, linking plant-floor actions to your enterprise sustainability initiatives.
A system of record to automate accurate GHG data collection, provide valuable insights, and identify ways to reduce carbon emissions
One modular solution to connect, see, control, and optimize DERs from a technical and an economic standpoint
Reduced operational costs and risks using Digital Twins, machine learning and predictive models
Increased network reliability
Advanced analytics to predict future asset and process performance for reduced variability and improved operations
Optimized asset performance to reduce risk and improve safety, reliability, compliance, and efficiency
Optimize assets and processes – from plant-level operations to the enterprise – with self-service process analytics software.
Minimized potential impact of anomalies
Comprehensive visibility of asset health for rapid situational adjustments with quality information
Streamlined mechanical integrity solution to reduce risk, maintain compliance and optimize resources
Develop, implement, maintain, and optimize asset strategies to effectively balance cost and risk
Operational visibility and analysis to reduce asset failures, control costs and increase availability
Performance Intelligence with APM Reliability is your partner in meeting your plant and fleet performance goals.
Predictive analytics software, helps prevent equipment downtime by detecting, diagnosing, forecasting & preventing emerging failures.
The AI-powered product automatically explores the space of operation of gas turbines, builds a machine learning model, and continuously finds the optimal flame temperatures and fuel splits to minimize emissions
BoilerOpt works within existing plant technology to improve boiler productivity and air-fuel ratios in a closed-loop system
Pre-built templates for equipment health monitoring, asset strategies, and process workflows
Operator rounds efficiency and operational impact
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End-to-end digital solutions reducing costs, empowering crews, and improving the passenger experience
Addressing fuel usage, carbon emissions, airspace efficiency, predictive maintenance, and more
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Early detection of aircraft and component degradation
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Fuel efficiency reports, helping airlines operate at peak safety and efficiency while reducing their carbon footprint
Operational excellence and improved safety
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A globally recognized benchmark for procurement of OT secure products.
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Native cloud service for a data historian.
Safe and secure management and orchestration of the distribution grid
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Overcome foreseeable load variations
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AI/ML energy market recommendations to improve profit for renewables and thermal generation assets
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A common network view to ensure electrical integrity, network validity and infrastructure management
Accurately model your asset network, support traceability, help assure data completeness, & support integrity management
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Software designed to help grid operators orchestrate the grid
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In-depth understanding of how GE Digital software can help your operations
Holistic performance management for today’s connected enterprise
Management of fast-moving processes as well as slower moving, labor-intensive jobs
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Facilitate documentation between airlines and lessors
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The cornerstone of your journey to operational excellence
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GridOS, the first grid software portfolio designed for grid orchestration
Reduced operational costs and risks using predictive models
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One modular solution that enables grid operators to connect, see, control, and optimize DERs from a technical and an economic standpoint
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Using Digital Twin blueprints, GE's Industrial Managed Services team monitors 7,000+ global assets
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A quick look at the Ookla 5G Map reveals the incredible pace of 5G deployments. In South Korea, according to the country’s telecoms regulator, as much as 21% of all mobile traffic is running on a 5G network.
A critical aspect to the success of 5G is the quality of the front and backhaul networks that are needed, which must provide high bandwidth combined with low latency. Since 5G cells are smaller than 4G cells, this means that the cell density is increased, in turn, requiring more extensive front and backhaul networks (as shown below).
South Korea has benefited from an extensive fiber network that supports an FTTH\B penetration of over 75%, which provides a network capable of supporting 5G’s needs. However, for many other parts of the world, such extensive networks do not exist. This means that the demand for reliable x-haul links will continue to grow. And this is an area where fiber makes a lot of sense. (For more details on this, see this white paper from Telecoms Tracker).
For many Competitive Service Providers (CSPs) looking to meet the needs of 5G with fiber, there will be a blend of new build and leasing of networks from other fiber providers. Indeed, many tower providers are also constructing extensive fiber networks and competing with traditional dark fiber providers.
In today’s highly competitive market, this means that the fiber providers must be able to respond to requests for backhaul links to support multiple cell locations as quickly as possible — while ensuring that the proposed networks are accurately costed and economical to operate. Any delays in the RFI process can lead to a lack of competitiveness and lost revenues; so speed, repeatability and accuracy are paramount.
Market consolidation and the transition toward fully converged CSPs, who own and operate both fixed and wireless networks, also offer these CSPs significant opportunities for cost savings — if they can consider the deployment of 5G x-haul alongside current or planned FTTx deployments. By considering the fiber demands from the locations for FTTx and 5G cell sites together, savings from shared infrastructure are possible. In some test scenarios, we have seen capital savings of up to 10% may be possible.
The need to quickly and accurately design fiber networks will become increasingly important as 5G deployments gather pace.
In both scenarios, GE’s GIS-based automated and optimized fiber network design solutions enable these savings to be created. Taking demand locations (cell sites and customer premises) and combining this with street centerline data and any existing network infrastructure, it is possible to create a low-level network design for a given area in a matter of minutes, with virtually no user input needed.
The advanced algorithms used create a design which reflects the lowest cost to construct the network, considering both equipment and labor, while at the same time ensuring that the design meets the relevant design constraints for level of service, spare capacity, etc. This is all enabled by a very flexible rules-base which can be tailored to meet regional variations for designs, e.g., rural vs. urban. The use of a consistent ruleset across design teams is also vitally important to guarantee designs that have less variation in construction, and so makes for a more efficient construction process that enables costs to be better managed.
In addition to using a least-cost automated design solution, CSPs should also consider how high-quality image data can assist in designing the fiber network. Providing the desktop planner with access to high-resolution panoramic imagery that has been ortho-rectified (think Google® Street View but to another level of accuracy), which enables accurate measurements to be taken from the imagery, can dramatically reduce the time that the designer needs to spend in the field. This can result in significant efficiency and cost savings, avoiding lost time due to travel and re-work due to a better understanding of the real-world situation.
Regardless of how useful image data is, at some point, the designer will likely need to visit the field and verify the design before construction is initiated. At this stage, it can be incredibly helpful to be able to take the design from the office out into the field electronically and make changes and modifications directly in the field. Then once back in the office, these changes can be reviewed and accepted, and the design seamlessly updated.
Again, such an approach can deliver productivity savings in the design process. Further savings can also be realized in the construction phase, since providing the construction teams with the means to update the design to reflect the as-built reality directly in the field can save significant time and additional truck rolls.
As the demand for 5G ramps up, CSPs are recognizing the need for more fiber to meet the bandwidth and latency requirements and are looking for the most cost-effective ways to design and deploy fiber. In many cases, that will mean process automation and digitization to increase user productivity. GE’s Smallworld ecosystem of solutions for CSPs can help across the plan-design-build-and-operate lifecycle.
Product Line Manager, Smallworld Telecoms, GE Digital
James Wheatley has worked in the geospatial software business for over 20 years. He currently is the Product Line Manager for Smallworld Telecoms, with responsibility for all aspects of product management relating to the Smallworld telecoms software.
Adoption of physical network inventory best practices must start now, before the next great cycle of infrastructure investment begins.
Declining profit growth from traditional telecoms services over the last decade has seen Communications service providers (CSPs) becoming much more focused on operational efficiency, driving cost out of operations to improve their bottom line. One proven method of boosting operational efficiency is to use modern telecoms-specific software inventory and management solutions to account for and monitor network assets.
Read this insight paper from Telecoms Tracker Research and Consulting.
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