×

GE.com has been updated to serve our three go-forward companies.

Please visit these standalone sites for more information

GE Aerospace | GE Vernova | GE HealthCare 

header-image
Lighting

Bright Lights: Connected LEDs From GE Illuminate The Future of Lighting

Kristin Kloberdanz
April 02, 2018
In 1912, in East Cleveland, Ohio, engineers at GE’s National Electric Lamp Association (NELA) Park buried a time capsule inside a hollow cornerstone of their building. The lead box held, among other items, a booklet about the “spirit of cooperation” at NELA; a book containing songs written for the “Lamp Men” and sung at their annual meeting; and five light bulbs.
header-image
IoT

From Light To Bright: San Diego Is Building The World's Largest Municipal Internet Of Things

Bruce Watson
October 10, 2017
San Diego’s newest streetlights might not look all that special — and that’s exactly the point. Designed to blend in with the rest of the city’s outdoor lighting, they’re easy to overlook. Under the surface, though, the LED fixtures are actually data-gathering machines. They will allow San Diego to build the largest municipal internet-of-things network in the world.
header-image
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.
Subscribe to San Diego