IoT Platform GE Predix

Predix is the platform for the Industrial Internet. Purpose-built for industry, it empowers organizations to develop, deploy, and operate industrial apps— driving outcomes such as reduced unplanned downtime, improved asset output, and greater operational efficiency. GE Digital and its partners offer a complete portfolio of products, solutions, and services that help leading industrial enterprises drive digital transformation. At the heart of this portfolio is Predix, the platform for the Industrial Internet.

Predix is the platform that supports innovative IoT solutions by providing a common software foundation for fundamental IoT security, scalability, and services functions. By leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) while adding critical IoT functions, the Platform provides a common application foundation, shared user experience, rapid-time-to-value, and the customer economy of a purchase-once investment in secure and scalable IoT software infrastructure.

Platform features

• Secure and reliable OT data transfer from equipment, sensors, HMI/SCADA, and historians, as well as IT systems and sources such as EAM/CMMS.
• Streaming and batch data ingestion and the near real-time data and analytics processing to handle a variety of application needs.
• Flexible analytics orchestration and execution of GE Digital Twin analytics and customer-developed analytics at both the edge and cloud.
• From hardened edge processing to encrypted data transfer to secure cloud operations, the platform assures end-to-end data and user access control and compliance.
• Proven data ingestion, analytics processing and operations management that scale to meet the demanding workloads of industrial leaders.
• Functions include data visualization, dashboarding, alerting, case management and more that support APM and other application workflows.

Essentials is the commercial offering of the Platform, delivering customers a complete package of the core Predix Platform functions used by GE Digital applications. It’s everything you need for solution success – from IT/OT connectivity to analytics processing to base application features – ready to power rapid and sustained industrial application value.

Predix Essentials is the IoT cornerstone of GE Digital applications, providing a complete package of core Predix Platform functions to power your solution. It’s everything you need – from IT/OT connectivity to analytics processing to base application features – ready to power rapid and sustained industrial application value.

Industrial IoT needs are driving new demands in edge computing. Edge simplifies data collection and data forwarding while supporting any local computing need. With powerful connectivity and management capabilities, and support for container-based apps and analytics, Edge securely handles advanced analytics and data processing that enhance industrial application results.

Predix Edge connects to industrial assets to collect data and send control signals. It supports a wide variety of standard and proprietary protocols to unlock access to almost any industrial data source. Data can be filtered, processed by edge-based apps and analytics, then reliably forwarded to Predix Cloud for further processing.

Predix Edge supports data processing from basic filtering and aggregation to edge-based applications and complex analytics. With support for multi-container workloads and analytics engines, Predix Edge can host local monitoring applications, custom data processing, streaming analytics, machine learning and more.