BOSTON, April 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- To accelerate
digital outcomes and use cases for commercial, industrial and
municipal users, Current, powered by GE (NYSE: GE), is adding 15
partners and microservices to its open Intelligent Environments
ecosystem. The growth in the company's app catalog and digital
capabilities comes as Current deploys intelligent LED
infrastructure in three cities – Tianjin, China; Schenectady,
New York; and Cleveland –
and on the heels of the company's acquisition of Daintree Networks,
an enterprise IoT provider of building controls solutions for small
and medium commercial facilities.
"The next wave of innovation will be led by those who embrace
digital infrastructure to drive new and meaningful outcomes," says
John Gordon, Chief Digital Officer,
Current, powered by GE. "In terms of physical infrastructure, no
other platform compares to the ubiquitous nature of lighting and
the potential LEDs offer to the commercial and industrial world as
the digital platform for industry. Deploying intelligent
LEDs coupled with sensors, software and scalable access to GE's
Predix platform provides the foundation for that innovation."
Intelligent Environments App Economy
To facilitate data-informed app and software development and
outcomes at an enterprise and city level, Current is launching six
microservices against its intelligent LEDs and GE's Predix cloud
platform. These architectures will drive data interactions relative
to temperature, occupancy, ambient light sensing, pedestrian
planning, parking, traffic and public safety.
At the same time, Current is bringing capabilities from the
global app development community and trusted providers as add-ons
to intelligent LED infrastructure. Customers will be able to pick
and choose the capabilities they want in their solution to solve
for unique challenges and bring their own app partners and
developers to innovate solutions against Current's Intelligent LEDs
and Predix.
In addition to previously announced collaborations with
AT&T, Capgemini, Intel, Qualcomm and Shotspotter, Current's
ecosystem of application vendors and system integrators now
includes:
Intelligent Enterprises Partners
- Eventboard: Better manage meeting rooms and forecast
workspace needs with analytics of how rooms are used, plus
real-time views of open rooms to save time searching.
- Keonn: Retailers are able to improve the customer
shopping experience in store, from increasing product availability,
to making sure that customers find the products they are looking
for.
- Mowingo: Retailers and brands target shoppers with
coupons, information and promotions via their mobile phones based
on their activity and precise indoor location, down to a store's
aisle.
- Point Inside: Answers the two most fundamental questions
in retail--Do you have it, and where can I find it--and directs
shoppers to the products on their smartphones, leading to increased
sales and new data to help retailers analyze shopper behavior and
improve store operations.
- Serraview: Businesses can visualize their space
utilization to make better decisions on their real estate needs and
provide just-in-time wayfinding tools to their employees.
Intelligent Cities Partners
- BreezoMeter: By pairing Current's microservices with
BreezoMeter technology, cities gain intelligence around how traffic
conditions impact the environment, giving planners actionable
analytics to influence city mapping and climate-change
initiatives.
- CivicSmart: This solution enables cities to efficiently
manage parking infrastructure to unlock the value of their streets
and drive growth in core business districts.
- Genetec: City, public safety and emergency responders
have real-time views of what's happening across town with live
video feeds and analytics to help create safer, more secure
environments.
- INRIX: No more circling the block looking for parking or
wasting time stuck in traffic. INRIX is the preferred provider of
parking and traffic intelligence to leading automakers,
transportation agencies and third-party apps. Customers include
Audi, BMW, Lexus, Toyota, more than 60 U.S. Departments of
Transportation, the U.K. Highways Agency and the Danish Road
Directorate.
In addition to these collaborations, Current will host two
upcoming hackathons to continue to deepen its Intelligent
Environments app catalog. The first will tap into developers at the
IoT World Conference and the second will be part of a virtual,
public Hackathon starting May 16.
Intelligent Installations
In addition to the growth of
its app catalog, Current is actively working with commercial,
industrial and municipal customers across the world on intelligent
infrastructure deployment.
Tianjin, China; Schenectady, New York; and Cleveland are the latest cities to install
Current's energy-saving, intelligent LED street lights armed with
sensors, software and other digital-data capabilities as their core
infrastructure for digital growth.
Tianjin, China, is the
first city in Asia to partner with
Current to install intelligent LEDs with intelligent capabilities
in one of their central business districts. The intelligent street
lights build on features such as security cameras, routers for free
Wi-Fi or digital screens that allow the city to broadcast critical
messages, such as traffic reports.
Schenectady, New York,
will install Current's intelligent streetlights downtown as part of
its smart cities vision, which is designed to take advantage of new
technology to improve the city's economic development and quality
of life, and will be part of a living lab that allows the city's
innovation team to study data to find new and innovative ways to
service the city, its residents and its business community.
The City of Cleveland is
in the process of installing several dozen intelligent LED fixtures
downtown to explore parking optimization and pedestrian safety
crossing in high-traffic areas, as well as other potential
outcomes. The installation comes as the city is making updates to
infrastructure across town in preparation for the RNC this
summer.
About GE
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