General Electric's Predix software set to disrupt microgrid market

Designed and developed entirely out of GE's India R&D centre over the past two years, the power units are now close to the stage of commercialisation

In a small building nested in one corner of General Electric’s (GE’s) sprawling John F Welch Technology Centre campus on the outskirts of Bengaluru, a team of around five engineers have their eyes fixed on a couple of dashboards. They are constantly monitoring the performance of two micro-power generation units in two remote Bihar villages, Tayabpur and Behlolpur, some 2,000 km away, and also in some global locations. They are checking the real-time power demand in these villages at different times using GE’s industrial IoT software platform Predix and are accordingly feeding the grid with energy so that there is