Ge has committed 1 billion to installing sensors on

2018). GE has committed $1 billion to installing sensors on gas turbines, jet engines, and other
machines; connecting them to the cloud; and analyzing the resulting data to identify ways to
improve machine productivity and reliability. In other words, GE is betting its future on software
and the Internet of Things (Laudon, 2018).
12-15 Describe three kinds of decisions that can be supported using Predix. What is
the value to the firm of each of those decisions? Explain.
The foundation for all of GE’s Industrial Internet (IoT) applications is Predix, a software
platform launched in 2015 to collect data from industrial sensors and analyze the information in

2018). GE is also building a developer community that will create apps that will be hosted on
Predix. Predix is not only limited to industrial applications, it can also be used to analyze data
within the healthcare systems. Example. GE now has a Health Cloud that can run on Predix.
Data security is embedded at all platform application layers, as this is essential for companies
linking their operations to the Internet (Laudon, 2018).
GE currently uses Predix to maintain and monitor its own industrial products, such as jet
engines, wind turbines and hydroelectric turbine systems (Laudon, 2018). Predix is also able to
provide GE corporates customers’ machine operators and maintenance engineers with real-time