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IoT

GE To Sell Current, Its Intelligent Environments Unit, To American Industrial Partners

Tomas Kellner
November 06, 2018
GE announced today a proposed deal to sell its intelligent environments unit, Current, powered by GE, to the New York-based private equity firm American Industrial Partners. “The firm’s deep expertise in operations and engineering, combined with its highly successful track record of industrial business investments, would help us accelerate Current’s growth,” said Maryrose Sylvester, Current’s president and CEO.
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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.
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Energy

LED There Be Light: Walmart Is Sprucing Up Stores, Driving Down Bills With New Lights

Kristin Kloberdanz
February 13, 2018
Last fall, a woman shopping at Walmart in Livonia, Michigan, approached the store manager with an unsolicited comment. “I don’t know what you did in here,” she said, “but suddenly I can read your food labels.” The reason? Not the packaging. The lettering was the same size and color it had always been. The only difference: Walmart had changed the lights.
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A Bright Idea: How LEDs Are Helping JPMorgan Chase Become Carbon Neutral

Bruce Watson
October 15, 2017
When Mike Norton took over as managing director of real estate at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2015, he took on a weighty responsibility that included finding an efficient and sustainable way to oversee the branding, maintenance, upkeep and design of 6,000 branches and commercial properties around the world. It was a complex task that turned on a simple item: the light bulb.
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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.
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Electrification Software

Smart LEDs Are Helping GM Drive Down Its Utility Bill

Bruce Watson
July 13, 2017
When Al Hildreth, General Motors’ global energy manager, started looking for a way to save his company $1 billion, a light bulb went off in his head. Actually, make it an LED.
LED fixtures are anywhere from 30 to 60 percent more efficient than traditional industrial lighting. For a company like GM, which operates 350 plants around the world, the savings can quickly add up.

So last year, GM signed an agreement with the company called Current, powered by GE, to be its new LED supplier. But a lower electricity bill was just a part of the picture.
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The Grid

High Voltage: Watch Out AC / DC Is Getting Its Groove Back

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 02, 2016
America’s largest machine — the power grid — has been pumping lifeblood electricity from power plants to our homes and businesses for more than a century. The vast network of wires, switches, transformers and other technology has gone through periodic upgrades, but the infrastructure is aging and increasingly prone to blackouts. Unfortunately, the stress on the network is starting to show at exactly the time when we need it to shoulder and move thousands of megawatts from new wind farms and solar installations popping up all over the country.
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How do you make the world’s biggest trucks even better?

September 18, 2016
Between 2012 and 2014 Rio Tinto’s fleet of 58 Komatsu autonomous trucks featuring GE electric propulsion systems drove to the moon and back five times—that is, they travelled almost 4 million kilometres—and moved the equivalent of 3,550 Sydney Harbour Bridges (200 million tonnes of iron ore).
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What Can Pokémon Go Teach GE About Retail's Future?

August 19, 2016
Mike Barrett doesn’t typically play video games, but he's learned a lot about the future of retail from Pokémon Go.
The Manchester, England, native recently bought his 11-year-old-son his first smartphone. “Less than a week after giving him his first mobile phone, he is completely addicted to Pokémon Go,” Barrett says.
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AC-DC

Back In Black: At A German Wind Farm, Direct Current From The Company Edison Founded Makes A Comeback

Dorothy Pomerantz
July 19, 2016
The 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago was a high point in American history. The fair boasted the first Ferris wheel, the first moving walkways and the introduction of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. But for many visitors, the highlight of the six-month-long event was the dazzling lights.
At night, the fair was lit by hundreds of thousands of incandescent bulbs. Although GE founder Thomas Edison had patented the light bulb 14 years earlier, no one had seen a light exhibit on the scale of the Chicago fair.
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