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Software

Japan’s First Digital Power Plant Goes Live

Kristin Kloberdanz
September 26, 2016
The massive gas-fired Futtsu Power Station, which forms a small peninsula in Tokyo Bay, is capable of generating 5,040 megawatts of electricity for millions of Japanese homes and businesses. Made up of four combined cycle blocks, the plant is already the most efficient of the 15 power stations operated by TEPCO Fuel & Power, the utility servicing the area around Japanese capital. But in the interest of “kaizen"—the Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement—TEPCO believes it can perform even better.
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Trains

Brains For Trains: How Software Is Making Trains Smarter

Dorothy Pomerantz
September 21, 2016
We fly connected planes and design self-driving cars, but what about smart trains? If you pay close attention, there is the faint sound of the whistle coming from around the digital bend.
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Electricity

Electricity 2.0: Why Asia’s Utilities Are Getting Ready To Download The Digital Power Plant

Hong Chou Hui
September 20, 2016
Asian economies grew an average of 6 percent last year—nearly triple the rate of Europe and the U.S.—and their appetite for electricity is growing accordingly. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that world energy consumption will increase 48 percent by 2040 and that much of that growth will come from countries such as China, India and Indonesia.
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Software

Neural Networks And Dynamite: AI Engineer Peter Kirk Talks About His Fascination With Coal Power Plants

Tomas Kellner
September 20, 2016
In April 2016, GE Power acquired the Boston-based machine learning and data analytics startup NeuCo Inc., which uses software and artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency of coal-fired power plants. They are still the most common source of electricity in the world.
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Industrial Internet

GE Buys $500 Million Machine Analytics Firm

Tomas Kellner
September 14, 2016
Since GE started building its digital business five years ago, it has pursued organic growth, combining a century of domain expertise in building big machines with asset management software and advanced industrial analytics. But the company also has been willing to buy growth when the right opportunity comes along.
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Electrification Software

The Airline Of The Future Will Be Powered By Data

Tomas Kellner
August 31, 2016

The Industrial Internet is changing the way the world does business — and that includes at 35,000 feet.

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Better Together: Intel and GE Partner to Bring Predix to More Industries

Dorothy Pomerantz
August 17, 2016
Intel is one of the world’s biggest technology companies, with semiconductor manufacturing facilities all over the globe. Those plants have to maintain rigorously controlled environments where every surface must be clean, every process must be perfect and even the smallest improvements can make a large impact.

Intel works hard to ensure that these facilities are constantly pushing the technological edge.

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olympics

A Winning Idea: How The Cloud Helps Olympic Athletes Avoid Injury

August 09, 2016
For most Olympic athletes, the biggest fear is not failing to win a gold medal but falling victim to a last-minute injury that destroys years of hard work and endless hours of practice. But doctors working with big data and cloud-based software are competing to make those heart-breaking injuries less likely.
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A day in the life of an energy-grid czar

July 28, 2016
Taking you to the software summit of energy control.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
July 15, 2016
This week we learned that keeping quiet makes even computers look smarter, we wondered how viruses and diseases can determine what we do and even who we are, and we pondered the mysteries of the universe that could be discovered by a new, robot-assembled space telescope. Read on, quietly.
 

 

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