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LEDs

Say Goodbye, Say Hello: GE Stops Making CFLs, Says Go, Go, Go To LEDs

February 01, 2016
GE is breaking up with compact fluorescent lamps.
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Lighting

How GE Brought Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer To Life

December 22, 2015
It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time when GE still needed to sell the general public on the value of artificial illumination. So it made sense for the company to devote an episode of the General Electric Fantasy Hour to a show about a little reindeer who saves the day with his bright red nose.
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Intelligent Lighting

Swimming With Current: New Chief Digital Officer makes Intelligent Environments a Platform for Innovation

Tomas Kellner
December 07, 2015

In October, GE launched Current, a startup focusing on bringing to market a holistic energy-as-a-service offering absent from the industry today. Former IBM Watson executive John Gordon just became Current’s first chief digital officer.

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Go with Current: GE's New Energy Business Changes the Power Game

October 07, 2015
GE announced today the creation of Current, a startup that combines energy hardware with a digital backbone to make power simpler and more efficient for customers.
The company, which is backed by GE’s balance sheet, brings together GE’s LED, Solar, Energy Storage and Electric Vehicle businesses as a one-stop shop for early customers like Walgreens, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton Worldwide and others.
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City Lights: Intelligent LEDs Could Save Lives, Not to Mention Money and Time

June 29, 2015
Imagine this scenario: A gunshot echoes down a city street at night. Passerby turn to look, but can’t make out the scene in the darkness. The first to react effectively is the nearest street lamp. It hears the gun and automatically goes to full brightness to illuminate the scene, film the attacker and call the emergency services – all in an instant.
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Lighting the Way — 3 Paths to Intelligent Environments

May 06, 2015

Lighting is no longer just about seeing, but about sensing and connecting to create a brighter environment — in cities, shops and at home.

 

Harnessing the power of light has been an obsession of humankind since the discovery of fire. Better lighting lets people work more productively, shop more conveniently and feel safer at home.
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LED

Fast and Luminous: These Lights are So Bright, They Could Show You the Quickest Way Around Town

April 21, 2015
For every showing of “A Streetcar Named Desire” in a big city, there’s a street packed with traffic on the way to the theater. Let’s face it, large urban centers may have culture and opportunity on their side, but they come with irksome baggage like congestion, air pollution and the lack of parking.
That baggage is getting heavier. Although half of the world’s population already lives in cities, the U.N. estimates that the number will spill over the 50 percent mark and hit 5 billion by 2030.
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This Japanese Company Built a “Disaster-Proof” Factory

March 17, 2015
Japan is famous for innovation. But, like many countries in the Pacific, it must also cope with fierce forces of nature. Now one local company has merged insights from both and built what could be one of the first “disaster-proof” factories.
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The Future of Agriculture? Indoor Farms Powered by LEDs

December 19, 2014

A warehouse full of lettuce might not be the first place you would expect to find the next Industrial Revolution. But follow the LED lights and you’ll discover a glimpse of the future of agriculture — industrial-scale, indoor farming.

Advances in LED technology are helping to create an environment where vegetables can be produced at scale, with higher yields and shorter grow cycles, no matter what climate.

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How LED Is Lighting the Way Toward Indoor Farming

December 16, 2014
A warehouse full of lettuce might not be the first place you would expect to find the next Industrial Revolution. But follow the LED lights and you’ll discover a glimpse of the future of agriculture — industrial-scale, indoor farming.
 

Advances in LED technology are helping to create an environment where vegetables can be produced at scale for maximum impact — with higher yields and shorter grow cycles, no matter what climate.
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