GE (General Electric) Predix may be a software platform for data collection from industrial instruments. It provides a cloud-based PaaS (platform as a service), which enables industrial-grade analytics for operations optimization and performance management. It connects data, individuals, and equipment during a standard way.

Predix was designed to focus on factories, and provides their ecosystems an equivalent simple and productive function as operating systems that transformed mobile phones. It began as a tool for General Electric’s internal IoT, specifically created to watch products sold.
Ge Predix Partnered with Microsoft Azure
Microsoft’s Azure may be a cloud computing platform and supporting infrastructure. It provides PaaS and IaaS, and various tools for building systems. Predix, recently made available on Azure, exploits a number of additional features like AI, advanced data visualization, and tongue technology. Microsoft plans to eventually integrate Predix with its Azure IoT suite and Cortana Intelligence suite, and also their well-established business applications. Azure also will allow users to create applications using Predix data. Note AWS and Oracle also support Predix.
Developer Kits
GE offers inexpensive developer kits consisting of general components and an Intel Edison processor module. Developers have the choices of a dual core board and a Raspberry Pi board. Developers need only provide an IP address, Ethernet connection, power supply, and lightweight programming to line data collection.
The kit automatically establishes the required connection, registers with the central Predix system, and begins transmitting environmental data from sensors. Users subscribe hardware/software output, and GE Digital owns and manages the hardware and software for the user.
This kit replaces the awkward and involved assemblies of simulations and testing environments. In other simulations, developers typically use an outsized set of software (one for every device), and specific configurations for every connection. They also program the monitoring of every device, which may sometimes take hours. The kit reduces much of the time spent performing these tasks from hours to only minutes.

The Predix developer kit
The kit also includes software components for designing an IoT application that partners with Predix services. GE plans to release other versions of the kit for various applications.
Internet of Things – Eclipse
Eclipse IoT is an ecosystem of entities (industry and academia) working together to make a foundation for IoT based exclusively on open source technologies. Their focus remains within the areas of manufacturing open source implementations of IoT standard technology; creating open source frameworks and services for utilization in IoT solutions; and developing tools for IoT developers.

Smarthome Project
SmartHome is one among Eclipse IoT’s major services. It aims to make a framework for building smart home solutions, and its focus remains heterogeneous environments, meaning assorted protocols and standards integration.
SmartHome provides uniform device and knowledge access to facilitate interaction between devices. It consists of OSGi bundles capable of deployment in an OSGi runtime, with OSGi services defined as extension points.
OSGi bundles are Java class groups and other resources, which also include detailed manifest files. The manifest contains information on file contents, services needed to reinforce class behavior, and therefore the nature of the mixture as a component. Review an example of a manifest below −
Bundle-Name : Hi Everyone // Bundle Name
Bundle-SymbolicName : xyz.xyz.hievery1 // Header specifying an identifier
Bundle-Description : A Hi Everyone bundle // Functionality description
Bundle-ManifestVersion : 2 // OSGi specification
Bundle-Version : 1.0.0 // Version number of bundle
Bundle-Activator : xyz.xyz.Activator // Class invoked on bundle activation
Export-Package : xyz.xyz.helloworld;version = “1.0.0” // Java packages available externally
Import-Package : org.osgi.framework;version = “1.3.0” // Java packages needed from
// external source
Eclipse SCADA
Eclipse SCADA, another major Eclipse IoT service, delivers a way of connecting various industrial instruments to a shared communication system. It also post-processes data and sends data visualizations to operators. It uses a SCADA system with a communication service, monitoring system, archive, and data visualization.

It aims to be an entire, state-of-the-art open-source SCADA system for developing custom solutions. Its supported technologies and tools include shell applications, JDBC, Modbus TCP and RTU, Simatic S7 PLC, OPC, and SNMP.
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