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Electrification Software

Forget The Consumer Internet Of Things: IIoT Is Where It’s Really At

Jon Pittman
October 13, 2016

While consumer IoT applications may get a lot off buzz, factories are likely to have the greatest potential economic impact from IoT use. Jon Pittman, vice president of corporate strategy for Autodesk, turned his house into an IoT testing ground and came up with three lessons for Industrial Internet of Things systems.

 

 
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IoT

Esperanto For Machines: GE And Bosch Partner To Help Machines Talk To Each Other

Kristin Kloberdanz
September 27, 2016
When the machines of tomorrow talk to each other, what language will they speak? Will a German car be able to communicate with traffic in America, and a jet engine from Cincinnati with a maintenance shop in China?
GE Digital and Bosch Software Innovations, the Bosch Group’s software and systems house, are working together to make machines and devices understand each other through a common language.
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IoT

Here's What Will Happen When 30 Billion Devices Are Connected To The Internet

Javier Garcia Martinez
July 18, 2016

Reaching everything from households to businesses, the Internet of Things is changing lifestyles and productivity. Scientists have just opened the doors to The Internet of Nano Things, where medicine and drug manufacturing are just the beginning.


 

 
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Big Data

GE And Microsoft Join Forces In The Industrial Data Cloud

July 11, 2016
The industrial cloud is about to get a lot bigger.
GE and Microsoft Corp. are uniting their cloud computing technologies in a partnership that will bring GE's Predix platform for the Industrial Internet to businesses running on Microsoft Azure.
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connectivity

5 Essential Things to Know About the Accelerating Future

Jim Carroll Futurist
March 22, 2016

In this era of hyperconnectivity, transformation is happening faster and impacting every industry. To thrive in this environment, you need to understand these five things.

 

Someday, we will look back and realize that we live in one of the most fascinating periods in history, with technology having entered a new era of what I call "hyperconnectivity" — where the rate of change is accelerating in nearly every industry.
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Industrial Internet

The Power Of Predix: An Inside Look At How Pitney Bowes Is Using The Industrial Internet Platform

Tomas Kellner
February 24, 2016
GE opened Predix, its cloud-based operating system for the Industrial Internet, to all users at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday. As of now, companies of all stripes can start using it to write industrial applications and make their machines and factories run better.
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Big Data

Meet Your Digital Twin: Internet For The Body Is Coming And These Engineers Are Building It

Tomas Kellner
December 18, 2015
Let’s be honest: November isn’t the best time to visit Helsinki. But the gloom that envelops the Finnish capital every autumn didn’t stop some 15,000 visitors from descending on Slush, one of the world’s largest tech gatherings, which drew 1,700 startups this year as well as Google, Nokia and GE.
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minds-machines

Power in Numbers: How The Industrial Internet is Helping Solve Pakistan’s Electricity Shortage

November 02, 2015
Shahid Abdullah has been in business long enough to spot a good opportunity. Abdullah is the president of the Sapphire Group, one of Pakistan’s largest textile companies with 16,000 employees, $800 million in annual revenues, and a global base of customers. But when his country started running out of electricity a decade ago, he switched gears and built a large power plant in Muridke, just north of Pakistan’s second largest city Lahore. “Moving into power generation was a step that made sense,” he says.
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minds-machines

Ladies and Gentlemen, Upload Your Engines: GE's First Chief Digital Officer Ganesh Bell Believes that Hardware is the Future of Software

Tomas Kellner
October 10, 2015
Silicon Valley veteran Ganesh Bell believes in the power of software so much that he decided to join one of the world’s largest industrial companies. “After two decades in the software business and working in the Valley, I’ve heard Marc Andreessen say that software was going to eat the world and it clicked,” he says. “I realized the next software company wouldn’t be a software company at all. Everyone has access to cloud, big data, and software talent. It’s the companies with deep industry domain in machines, infrastructure and operations expertise that will have the upper hand.
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minds-machines

How Big Data and the Industrial Internet Can Help Southwest Save $100 Million on Fuel

October 05, 2015
Map out one million flight plans each year for Southwest Airlines. Everything from planeloads of chilly Chicagoans heading for vacations in Cancun to budget-minded businesspeople dashing from Los Angeles to New York. It’s difficult. Now try toting up the countless variables on each one of those flights, such as the air’s humidity and the fuel load on each leg, in hopes of accurately calculating their impact on the bottom line.
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