Lizzy Li and Michael Williams, GE Digital - Predix Transform 2016 - #PredixTransform #theCUBE
Channel: SiliconANGLE theCUBE
Date: 2016-07-28

Lizzy Li, Innovation Services Program Manager at GE Digital & Michael Williams, Innovation Services Lead Engineer at GE Digital, down with Host Jeff Frick at Predix Transform 2016, at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Predix Developer Kits coming soon | #PredixTransform

https://siliconangle.com/2016/07/29/predix-developer-kits-coming-soon-predixtransform/

With 1,700 attendees at the first-ever GE Predix Transform conference, it is clear that developer interest is high in Predix, GE’s industrial operating platform. In response, GE Digital is releasing Predix Developer Kits, which will enable both developers and customers alike to quickly get started creating applications on the Predix platform.

Lizzy Li, innovation services program manager at GE Digital, and Michael Williams, innovation services lead engineer at GE Digital, sat down with Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), host of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during GE Predix Transform 2016 at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. They discussed the new kits and how they are helping anyone interested in developing on Predix quickly get off the ground.

Kits for developers and customers alike
Predix Developer Kits are designed with ease of use in mind, allowing developers to get up and running and provision a prototyping board in only 15 minutes, according to Li. They are designed specifically for industrial use cases, but can be cross-functional between industrial and non-industrial applications. This allows them to be used interchangeably between developers, technicians and customers in a wide array of scenarios.

“We’re developing something that will enable both developers and industrial customers alike to get connected at the Edge,” explained Li. “[They can] connect their devices, their machines and have an easy on-ramp to Predix so that they can start developing applications and getting a lot value out of the data that they’re collecting.”

Standardized functionality
GE has designed the kits to run using the same software from prototyping to testing to final implementation. This saves developers and engineers time that would normally be spent re-configuring once the board is out of the prototype phase and into production.

“The nice thing about Predix and what we’re trying to do with Predix and Predix Edge is it’s the same software stack that you might run on a prototyping board as you are actually going to run on an industrial hardened device,” said Williams. “So once you get it good on your prototyping board, you just take that same software and you just go and put it on an industrial hardened device and you’re good to go.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the GE Predix Transform 2016.


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