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Big Data

Going Number One Or Zero: This Japanese Company Just Brought The Binary Code Into the Bathroom

December 22, 2015
Building a house or renovating an apartment typically involves brute force and noise, frayed nerves, busted budgets and, sometimes, poisoned relations with neighbors. But homeowners in Japan can now rely on software-enabled technology to take out some of the pain.
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future of energy

From Gigabytes To Gigawatts: The Power Plant Of The Future Will Look Like Like This

Dorothy Pomerantz
December 11, 2015
Over the next decade, the global population is expected to grow by 1 billion people to more than 8 billion, and everyone will need electricity. GE expects demand for power to grow 50 percent over the next 20 years, by an additional 3,000 gigawatts (GW) of power-generation capacity.
Getting there will require some creative engineering — both reimagining the usual suspects like turbines and generators as well as deploying new cloud-based digital tools and data analytics. GE has a few ideas.
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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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Minds-Machines

Let’s Get Digital: Aviation Software Center Takes Flight in Dubai

Kristin Kloberdanz
Tomas Kellner
November 14, 2015
GE Aviation’s latest technology center sits tucked away from the hustle and bustle of Dubai International Airport, inside the Dubai Airport Free Zone and just steps away from the executive jet terminal, a location handy for easy access. From the outside, the place looks like just another glass-and-concrete office tower that sprouted in this desert metropolis over the last decade. But step inside its spaceship-like lobby, with walls inlaid with varnished white panels and flat-screen displays illuminated by chameleonic LEDs, and you’ll feel transported into the future.
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minds-machines

Every Electron Gets a Byte: Digital Power Plant Makes Electricity Smart

Tomas Kellner
October 13, 2015
Like an industrial cathedral, a power plant can be a placed filled with a special kind of serenity. Walk into the pump room that feeds high-pressure steam into turbines that make electricity and you can see sun dancing on aluminum ducts while the pumps hum to the tune of 800 horsepower.
But on this day, all is not as it seems. Sure, technicians move around purposefully, performing their normal tasks. Valves open in the right sequence like pipes on an organ. Even trained eyes can’t see anything amiss. But back in the control room, a warning box pops up on the plant operator's screen.
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minds-machines

‘Digital Twin’ Technology Changed Formula 1 and Online Ads. Planes, Trains and Power Are Next

October 04, 2015
When did shopping online become more like driving a 200-mile-per-hour racecar? Quite recently, thanks to something called “digital twin” technology. Now it’s going to change railroads, airlines, factories and the rest of the business world.
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minds-machines

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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minds-machines

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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