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Perspectives

Marco Annunziata: The Industrial App Economy Is Ready for Its Download

Marco Annunziata GE
September 29, 2015

The industrial app economy will spur innovation by enabling a more seamless environment for people and machines to work smarter and more efficiently together.

 

We live in a world of apps. They have become so pervasive in our daily experience that we don’t even think about it anymore: an app wakes us in the morning, and another app reports the quality of our sleep; we use apps to move around town, book restaurants and movies, track our weight and physical activity, meet friends, stream music and keep up with the news. Life is an app.
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Cesar Cerrudo: Securing the Intelligent City

Cesar Cerrudo Ioactive
September 27, 2015

As they invest in smart technologies to improve services and save money, cities also need to step up security against cyber threats.


 

Cities are incorporating new technologies at an increasingly rapid pace, becoming ever smarter. Newer technologies — along with faster and easier connectivity — allow cities to optimize resources, save money and provide better services to their citizens.
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A Date with Data: Taking Stock of the Emerging Digital Industrial Economy

Todd Alhart
September 27, 2015
There wasn’t much talk of Messi but a lot of conversations involving machines talking to machines in certain corners of Barcelona in mid-September, when more than 4,000 humans from over 50 countries converged on this Catalan city for the inaugural Internet of Things Solutions World Congress. This week, the digital caravan moves to San Francisco, where GE is holding its annual Minds + Machines conference in San Francisco – the font of Internet disruption.
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Wind in the Cloud? How the Digital Wind Farm Will Make Wind Power 20 Percent More Efficient

September 27, 2015
Few people embody the backyard inventor better than Charles Brush. In 1887, he built behind his mansion in Cleveland, Ohio, a 4-ton wind generator with 144 blades and a comet-like tail, and used it to power a set of batteries in his basement. Although by today’s standards the huge, 60-foot machine was massively inefficient, it started a new industry that pushed generations of engineers to make it better. Now GE has decided to go further and improve on the entire wind farm in one fell swoop.
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Let’s Get Connected: GE Digital Chief Bill Ruh Talks About Intelligent Machines and Our Optimized Future

Philip Trippenbach
September 25, 2015
Bill Ruh believes in intelligent machines as an emerging reality, not a distant sci-fi concept. “I’m looking forward to a future where the power never goes out, where the water is always clean, where airplanes always run on time, and where the health care industry is working to its full capacity,” he says. “Connected, intelligent machines can get us there.”
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Industrial Internet

Smart Streets Are Made of These: San Diego Deploys America’s First Intelligent Lighting System

September 24, 2015
The denizens of the world’s sprawling megacities all face similar daily challenges: traffic, busy sidewalks, packed puclic transportation, no available parking. “Urbanization is coming at us like a freight train,” says Rick Freeman, global product manager for intelligent devices at GE Lighting. "The same old ways are plain going to fail. We have to get ready.”
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Breaking New Ground: Digital Twin Helps Engineers Design Megawatt-Sized Circuit Breakers

September 23, 2015
We’ve all stood in the dark at least once after getting tripped up by power-hungry appliances. Typically, the remedy is just steps away: a quick flip of the circuit breaker switch, and you’re back in business.
It’s a simple fix, but it involves complex physics. “Circuit breakers protect our homes from electricity overload,” says Tim Ford, senior product manager for industrial circuit breakers at GE’s Industrial Solutions business. “This sounds easy, but the amount of energy they are often called on to dissipate is like grabbing the flywheel of a running car and stopping it.”
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Industrial Internet Insights — Q&A With Matt Reilly

Matt Reilly Accenture Strategy
October 13, 2014
There is a growing urgency for organizations to embrace Big Data analytics to advance their Industrial Internet strategy, according to a new report from Accenture and GE. However, less than one-third of the 250 executives surveyed for the study, released at GE’s Minds + Machines conference last week, are using Big Data across their company for predictive analytics or to optimize their business.
 
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How Wireless Makes the Industrial Internet Work — Q&A With Mark Bartolomeo

Mark Bartolomeo Verizon
October 10, 2014
The Industrial Internet is revolutionizing how businesses operate across a range of industries, with companies from railways to healthcare providers starting to reap the benefits of machine-to-machine connectivity.
 
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Marco Annunziata: How Interconnectedness Is Creating a New Kind of Industrial Company

Marco Annunziata GE
October 09, 2014
The convergence of the digital and the physical world spurred by the Industrial Internet and augmented by Advanced Manufacturing and the Global Brain is bringing a profound transformation to industry.
 

A connected device or machine becomes something entirely new. Think of the multiple roles that smartphones play in our everyday lives; or how cars are turning into communication and navigation platforms with an increasing degree of autonomy. The same revolution is underway in industry.
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