Smart DevOps Round-up With SiliconANGLE

This week’s Smart DevOps roundup features an industrial Internet software platform that will soon be available to the public, a platform for communicating lights, and an upcoming webinar for IoT custom app development.

GE’s Predix will be available to all in 2015

General Electric Co. is on track to deliver over $1 billion in incremental revenue this year from more than 40 Industrial Internet offerings to help customers improve asset performance management (APM)and business operations across the company. Additionally, Predix, the company’s software platform for the Industrial Internet of Things, will be open to all companies in 2015. By opening Predix to the public, it will allow participants to create and deploy their own customized industry apps to better manage the performance of company assets.

GE also announced the Predix App Factory, an entirely new method to building apps. It is an advanced methodology for rapidly prototyping, validating, and developing Industrial Internet apps, shortening the typical development cycles from months to weeks.

Lastly GE has also expanded its partnership with Intel Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. to ensure that future products will be Predix-ready.

An open framework for connected lighting

More homes and office buildings are being fitted with smart lights that can be remotely controlled using a smartphone, tablet or a web app.  Because of this trend, the AllSeen Alliance has put together the Connected Lighting Working Group, responsible for the creation of an open framework to allow smart lights to communicate with users and other connected devices.

Connected lighting has the potential to be one of the most dramatic applications of the Internet of Everything in homes and businesses,” Marc Alexander, CTO at smart lighting company LIFX and chairman of AllSeen’s Connected Lighting Working Group, said in a statement. “To meet that potential, lights need the ability to proximally discover one another and other things, regardless of brand, platform or OS. That’s why there is a strong need in the market for a connected lighting framework based on open standards.”

Embarcadero to host IoT custom app development webinar

Developers interested in learning about developing custom apps for the Internet of Things, mark your calendars for Wednesday, October 15, 2014, as Embarcadero Technologies Inc. will be hosting a webinar for the said topic.

Sarina DuPont, Senior Product Manager at Embarcadero Technologies, will be providing tips for building IoT apps using Appmethod and Kinvey’s Backend as a Service (BaaS) platform. The webinar will also demonstrate how to create consumer mobile apps that connect to a Bluetooth-enabled heart rate monitoring device while using Appmethod and Kinvey’s BaaS.

Registration for the event is now open and those who will be tuning in will be provided with on-demand replay of the webinar and PDF of the slide presentation.  The one-hour webinar will start at 9AM San Francisco / 12PM New York / 5PM London, and will consist of a 45-minute presentation followed by a 15-minute question & answer session.