GE Revs Up Its Industrial IoT Partner Opportunities

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What's one example of a specific IoT use case you're deploying?

One would be asset performance management. Assets can vary from incredibly expensive assets like a jet engine, all the way down to a cheap asset like a water pump that cools a drill in a liquid natural gas drill.

One organization we work with has a large number of liquid natural gas wells, and one of their biggest issues has been that the oil pumps that keep the drill for the well cool, will occasionally break down. So if that happens the whole thing overheats, and then it shuts down, and it creates big issues. In general, downtime is something we're trying to eliminate or reduce through active monitoring of assets. In this case, its low-cost water pumps keeping the drill bit cool, and is essentially deploying sensors into this equipment feeding the data back in the Predix space analytics platform, to identify when unusual situations start to occur, and then proactively going in and resolving an issue before it happens.