GE’s Jeff Immelt: Rise of the intelligent (industrial) machines

In a post for GigaOm, GE Chairman and CEO shares the future vision for industrial Internet.

The Industrial Internet leverages the power of the cloud to connect machines embedded with sensors and sophisticated software to other machines (and to us) so we can extract data, make sense of it and find meaning where it did not exist before. Machines – from jet engines to gas turbines to CT scanners – will have the analytical intelligence to self-diagnose and self-correct. They will be able to deliver the right information to the right people, all in real time. When machines can sense conditions and communicate, they become instruments of understanding. They create knowledge from which we can act quickly, saving money and producing better outcomes.

If you have a few minutes, check out what GE has to say.