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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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Electricity

Electricity 2.0: Why Asia’s Utilities Are Getting Ready To Download The Digital Power Plant

Hong Chou Hui
September 20, 2016
Asian economies grew an average of 6 percent last year—nearly triple the rate of Europe and the U.S.—and their appetite for electricity is growing accordingly. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that world energy consumption will increase 48 percent by 2040 and that much of that growth will come from countries such as China, India and Indonesia.
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Software

Neural Networks And Dynamite: AI Engineer Peter Kirk Talks About His Fascination With Coal Power Plants

Tomas Kellner
September 20, 2016
In April 2016, GE Power acquired the Boston-based machine learning and data analytics startup NeuCo Inc., which uses software and artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency of coal-fired power plants. They are still the most common source of electricity in the world.
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Big Data

Boston Startup Will Help GE Make Coal-Fired Power Plants Cleaner With Software

April 19, 2016
You’ve heard the story before. Uber, the world’s most valuable cab company, owns no taxis. Airbnb, the world’s busiest accommodations business, owns no hotels and Facebook, the world’s largest social media company, creates very little content. Instead, they use software and advanced data analytics to match supply with demand and give customers what they are looking for in the most direct way.
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Predix

Here's How Digital Electricity Will Change The Power Industry All The Way To Your Home

Tomas Kellner
March 13, 2016
When the large Pakistani textile maker Sapphire Group wanted to secure a reliable supply of electricity for its mills recently, it didn’t just build a new power plant. The company used a technology called digital twin to model the entire plant inside the cloud, run simulations and come up with the optimal way to design and run it.
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Powering The Future

March 08, 2016
GE’s Steam Power Systems Customer Summit @ Fullerton Hotel, Singapore, March 2016

“The industry, as we know it, is changing” – Steve Bolze, CEO, General Electric Power.

With those few choice but telling words, GE’s first Steam and Power Systems customer summit was underway.

The 2-day event in Singapore had been designed to bring together customers from the ASEAN region for robust discussions surrounding the power industry, current trends and future opportunities.
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Powering The Future

March 07, 2016
GE’s Steam Power Systems Customer Summit @ Fullerton Hotel, Singapore, March 2016
“The industry, as we know it, is changing” – Steve Bolze, CEO, General Electric Power.

With those few choice but telling words, GE’s first Steam and Power Systems customer summit was underway.

The 2-day event in Singapore had been designed to bring together customers from the ASEAN region for robust discussions surrounding the power industry, current trends and future opportunities.
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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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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

Video: Minds + Machines: Software is Eating the World and GE Feels Fine

Tomas Kellner
October 05, 2015
GE held its fourth annual Minds + Machines conference in San Francisco last week. The big themes included opening Predix, the company’s software platform for the Industrial Internet, to outside developers and the launch of the world’s first digital power plant.
 
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