Fundación Telefónica ha publicado un estudio sobre las implicaciones de la nueva revolución industrial.
La industria, al igual que otros sectores de actividad como la energía, el transporte o la agricultura, se está adentrando en una nueva etapa de la mano de la tecnología. Actualmente, la gran mayoría de empresas ya ha adoptado Internet en sus procesos internos, para la gestión de tareas y la conexión con sus clientes, sin embargo, la verdadera revolución digital en el ámbito industrial está en la conectividad de las máquinas y dispositivos gracias a las tecnologías de la Internet de las Cosas.
The industrial fringe of Greenville, South Carolina, isn’t the most obvious place to go looking for a glimpse of things to come. But tucked behind railroad tracks and boxy factories you’ll find GE Power’s new Advanced Manufacturing Works, which officially opened Friday. It’s changing how humans make things.
Helium has raised $20 million in a new round of funding for its smart industrial sensor business. The San Francisco company has also created a new sensor, the Helium Green, for the industrial and enterprise applications of the Internet of Things, which makes everyday objects smart and connected.
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.
GE Power, the GE business unit that makes heat- and electricity-generation equipment but owns very few power plants, is now taking a similar approach to the power industry. It uses software, data analytics and deep industry knowledge to make power plants run better and help utilities generate more power at a lower cost and reduce their emissions.
San Diego-based Proximetry, which specializes in software used to manage critical devices in the Internet of Things (IoT), said it has begun working to integrate its technology with Predix, GE’s cloud platform for the industrial Internet.
Under a new partnership with GE Digital, Proximetry said it worked with GE engineers to develop Predix EdgeManager, technology that is used to manage and optimize performance-critical devices across an IoT network.
There is no opting out of digital transformation. Successful companies carve out new strategic options for themselves – others fail.
The future is not what it used to be. Digitization has reached us all and changed everything. Consumers, clients and indeed the whole economy have become faster paced, less predictable, and more volatile. The number of digital options open to businesses is growing exponentially, with no sign of letting up.
GE spent $1 billion over the last few years to develop Predix, the cloud-based platform that has allowed GE to securely collect data from jet engines, gas turbines and MRI scanners, analyze it and then use the results to make them run better. Last fall GE gave access to Predix to a select group of partners and customers. On Monday, the company took the next step at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and opened Predix to all developers.
Over the last few years, oil and gas giants have not shied away from investing in private companies innovating in diverse areas including cleantech, biofuels, battery tech, wearables, connected fleets, seismic technology, big data, carbon sequestration, and chemicals. Today, innovation can only be more top of mind for the legacy energy giants as they weather the current oil price downturn.
We used CB Insights’ Business Social Graph, which shows how top investors and target companies are related, in order to analyze where some of the top oil and gas companies are striking deals.
Specifically, we analyzed the investment activity of the following 24 corporations and corporate venture arms:
With connected devices like Nest and Sonos breaking into the mainstream, the IoT has become one of the most-discussed tech trends of the last twenty years. And the hype is well founded: IoT startups have attracted a cumulative $7.4B in venture investment over the past 6 years, according to our data.
