[I hadn't heard the term "industrial internet" until this article. I'm reading a book right now about the future, The Meaning Of The 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint For Ensuring Our Future by James Martin. In it, Martin predicts much more sophisticated automation such as this, using the term 'artilects' for 'artificial intellect'. In a way, it ignores the value of human ability to recognise nuance as opposed to the literal interpretations by computers, unless something has drastically changed in how software works. Granted, there are if/then conditionals that can be incorporated to avoid the worst problems, but I'm not convinced. Also 'regression toward the mean' comes to mind, as well as the problem with exceptions when one relies on 'big data' predictions. Discuss.] [PS: I see that Martin died just this year at age 79.]
Corporate giants expand industrial internet Published: October 10, 2013 - 9:47AM General Electric has announced partnerships with AT&T, Cisco and Intel to expand its industrial internet service that allows its customers to analyse data and predict outcomes. The service helps customers analyse industrial "big data" data so large that it is difficult to process using traditional database and software. This would help customers minimise downtime, increase productivity, lower fuel costs and reduce emissions. By connecting machines to the network and the cloud, workers can track, monitor, and operate GE's machinery wirelessly from anywhere through secure and machine-to-machine communications, GE Software's corporate officer Bill Ruh said. GE has existing partnerships with Amazon Web Services, Accenture and Pivotal to support the service. GE said the ten "predictivity" products it launched last year have contributed revenue of $US290 million ($307 million) so far this year. The company said it has 14 new customers for the 14 products launched on Wednesday. According to technology research group Wikibon, industrial data is expected to grow at two times the rate of any other big data segment over the next decade. Reuters <http://twitter.com/#%21/itpro_au>Follow IT Pro on Twitter This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/cloud/corporate-giants-expand-industrial-internet-20131010-hv228.html Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
