{"id":295476,"date":"2019-10-09T11:58:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T06:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295476"},"modified":"2019-10-09T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T06:30:56","slug":"how-ges-marrying-industrial-with-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-ges-marrying-industrial-with-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"How GE\u2019s marrying industrial with digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a remote village in Bihar, a hybrid generator that uses diesel and solar panels is helping residents access power whenever there is no supply from the grid.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of the unit \u2014 which helps light up a few dozen homes \u2014 is a dispatch algorithm that switches between solar and diesel and improves battery performance.<\/p>\n<p>If there is a glitch, engineers at GE\u2019s John F. Welch Technology Centre in Bengaluru receive an alert. They then either rectify the system remotely or send the nearest technician to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>An experiment to solve electricity problems in remote areas has now turned into a full-fledged business for GE, which is shaping itself as an industrial company that merges digital while offering its products to customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a remote village in Bihar, a hybrid generator that uses diesel and solar panels is helping residents access power whenever there is no supply from the grid. At the heart of the unit \u2014 which helps light up a few dozen homes \u2014 is a dispatch algorithm that switches between solar and diesel and improves battery performance. If there is a glitch, engineers at GE\u2019s John F. Welch Technology Centre in Bengaluru receive an alert. They then either rectify the system remotely or send the nearest technician to fix it. An experiment to solve electricity problems in remote areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}