Here are the five winning startups of the first edition:

WHAT IS DIGITAL INDUSTRY?

Digital Industry is a call for collaboration with GE to build and deploy advanced data solutions using GE’s cloud-based platform Predix.

WHO IS IT FOR?

The program is for independent entrepreneurs and startups based in Europe or Israel with a proven track record in data science and advanced analytics. It is for teams and individuals who are willing to contribute to the development of applications that use operational industrial data for better and faster decision-making.

WHY COME ON BOARD?

Teams will go from an industrial or business challenge to a commercially viable solution. By supporting a community of entrepreneurs and developers, GE provides financial and mentoring resources. With this support, selected teams will build and deploy apps in a secure environment and get the opportunity to access GE's market and network.

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Beyond the financial grant, this program aims at unlocking sustained and balanced business opportunities between GE and the selected teams. Together, they will agree on a business model defining their partnership, in which the selected teams retain the Intellectual Property of their solutions.

Challenges

Improve GE’s ability to predict electricity consumption and production at local scales, taking into account the intermittency of renewable sources and consumer behaviours.

#time-series #forecasting #energy

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Develop a software providing insights on space usage (occupancy, trajectories), demonstrated on an existing 5,000-sqm smart-lighting setup.

#location-analytics #signal-processing

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Build a data infrastructure and analysis software able to collect, store, process and visualize the massive data produced by the new generation of ultra-high-resolution power grid monitoring devices.

#time-series #big-data #machine-learning

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Set up a blockchain-based electricity trading system for local energy-sharing communities, to guarantee transparency, safety and favourable rates to communities.

#blockchain #p2p-transaction #microgrid

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Develop an optimization algorithm for the planning of hydropower production across a network of dams and rivers, to be validated on historical operational data.

#optimization #network-problems #hydropower

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