General Electric software

With any Smart Grid implementation, utilities face extremely large up-front and on-going expenses as well as the daunting task of planning, executing, and managing the entire project – all of which may expose the utility to an undue amount of integration risk and financial stress.Grid IQ Solutions as a Service delivers subscription based hosted Smart Grid service "packages" designed to leverage GE"s breadth, experience, and Smart Grid technology to shift integration, financial, and deployment risks away from the utility and provide a cost-effective Smart Grid solution.The offering utilizes GE-owned Smart Grid software and hardware technologies and strategic partnerships to provide meters and metering services, AMI, meter data management, pre-payment Outage Management System (OMS), Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Geospatial Information System (GIS) as pre-integrated standard packages for faster deployment at a low up front cost and with low utility risk.

Predix is GE’s software platform for the Industrial Internet. Predix enables asset performance management (APM) and operations optimization by providing a standard way to run industrial-scale analytics and connect machines, data, and people. Deployed on machines, on-premise, or in the cloud, Predix combines an industry-leading stack of technologies for distributed computing and big data analytics, asset data management, machine-to-machine communication, and mobility.