Update 21 February 2016 — I received email from Sophie Sleck of Blanc & Otis: OCF is not unifying OIC and AllSeen, this…
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GE tech guru high-fives the public cloud
Despite the success of Amazon Web Services, and the resources Microsoft and Google have poured into Azure and Google Cloud Platform respectively to compete…
Read MoreGE starts rolling out Pivotal’s big data technology to its own customers
Last year, General Electric invested $105 million in Pivotal; Now it's starting to deploy Pivotal's big data analytics capabilities both in house and to buyers of its jet engines.…
Read MoreGE to pour $105M into EMC and VMware’s Pivotal Initiative
GE said it will use its 10 percent stake in the nascent Pivotal Initiative to bolster its industrial internet push…
Read MoreGE to IBM: Watch your data, we are coming
General Electric, the massive industrial conglomerate, will not be content to let IT leaders like IBM and Google hog all the glory in the internet of things era.…
Read MoreReal “touch” screens and tasteful computers: IBM predicts the future
IBM's latest "5 in 5" list picks technologies the IT giant feels will hit the mainstream in the next 5 years. Its 2012 choices all center on richer data input and output that give computers the ability to taste, smell, touch, and feel.…
Read MoreShocker: GE sees huge upside for internet of industrial things
General Electric, the mega-conglomerate behind machines from household appliances to jet engines, says there are huge productivity gains to be had by connecting manufacturing and test devices up to the "industrial internet."…
Read MoreSmart grid VC funding has been “extremely weak”
Investments by venture capitalists into smart grid companies -- or firms that are adding digital intelligence to the power grid -- has remained "extremely weak" over at least the last three quarters, according to research firm the Mercom Capital Group.…
Read MoreApple’s enterprise inroads extend to GE, local governments
Apple is making strides with enterprise customers, according to a lot of recent surveys, but how does that look on the ground? Two recent examples include a program that's bringing Macs to corporate heavyweight General Electric, and the ongoing rollout of iPads among local governments.…
Read MoreFirst Solar sets record for thin-film solar tech
First Solar has broken its own record. The company announced Tuesday that it’s able to produce a thin-film solar panel that can convert 14.4 percent of the sunlight that hits it into electricity. The new record exceeds the 13.4 percent it achieved last year.…
Read MoreGE’s smart grid services highlight a move to the cloud
Two recent wins for GE signal not just where GE is headed, but also two important trends for 2012. First, the move to "cloud-based" hosted services is under way in earnest. Second, many of the sector's biggest players are targeting coops and municipals.…
Read MoreBehind the scenes of GE’s India energy lab
This weekend in the final leg of my trip to India with Geeks on a Plane, we stopped by GE's research center in Bangalore. While GE works on a variety of technology at the center, I focused on the energy research that GE is conducting there.…
Read MoreWhy some execs think Hadoop ain’t all that
So the big data backlash begins. The Hadoop framework does a lot, but some experts -- including those who push non-Hadoop options -- say it's not enough for many specialized apps where a build-your-own Hadoop implementation costs too much to be a real contender.…
Read MoreCurrent’s pivot: From broadband to smart grid to overseas
You might remember the name Current, because at one point Google and other investors pumped over $200 million into the company to focus on broadband-over-powerlines. Jump forward six years and Current is now a smart grid company with new investors and focus on Europe and Asia.…
Read MoreGE shows off uber-green LEED platinum data center
Achieving the ultimate in green building badges -- the LEED platinum certification -- is pretty rare and is particularly unusual for data centers. But on Thursday GE showed off its new LEED platinum-certified data center in Louisville, Ky. Here are some photos from the green facility.…
Read MoreTurning a building into a solar honeycomb
Fusing solar technology with buildings is an area that tends to invite creative ideas. An intriguing design caught our attention at Intersolar in San Francisco this week: It’s a solar panel with a honeycomb structure that replaces the glass facades of a building.…
Read MoreHow vehicle-to-grid technology could get past the pilot stage
U.S. startup Nuvve is setting its sights on the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) market with a 30-car project in Denmark that it says will sell plug-in car battery power to help stabilize the grid. Can the model scale?…
Read MoreSensus Lands $675M for Star — not Mesh — Smart Grid
Sensus is the only one of the big five smart meter giants using a licensed star network, rather than an unlicensed mesh network, to connect smart meters. Now it has $675 million in debt financing to expand that technology.…
Read MoreLandis+Gyr at Any Price? Smart Meters’ Second Act
Landis+Gyr is on the auction block, and big smart grid suitors like General Electric, Toshiba and Honeywell ABB are rumored to be interested in paying $2 billlion-plus for the smart meter giant. Strategic buyers could find value by integrating into their own lines of business.…
Read MoreMixed Signals for Q1 Greentech Investment
Greentech investment trends in the first quarter of 2011 either signal a record-setting expansion for the industry in 2011, or retrenchment in the face of economic and political headwinds -- depending on how you look at the numbers.…
Read MoreIndustry Efficiency: GE Buys Converteam for $3.2B
GE's plan to buy a 90-percent stake in big French electrification and automation player Converteam for $3.2 billion could open up new opportunities to use electricity to replace fossil-fueled power.…
Read MoreOpen Source Smart Grid Goes to China, Courtesy of Honeywell
Honeywell and State Grid Corp. of China plan a big demand response pilot project using OpenADR, marking the first step into the potentially huge Chinese market for the emerging standard for automating demand response.…
Read MoreSmart Meters: Cheap in the South, but Coasts Will Cost
A study has found that Southern utilities could be able to pay back the costs of smart meters a lot faster and more easily than East and West coast utilities. How do regional grid differences play out in real life?…
Read MoreThe Future of Home Energy: The Cloud & Privacy
The cloud can make home energy management both cheap and powerful. But what if it turns out to run afoul of real — or imagined — privacy concerns?…
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