General Electric creates industry testbed equipped with Verizon 5G
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NISKAYUNA—General Electric created a testbed lab equipped with Verizon’s 5G capabilities to explore energy, aviation, and healthcare innovations that will transform those industries, the company announced this week.
The 5G network will help the company’s research department explore new, 5G-enabled technologies such as medical patient monitoring, wireless control of wind farms, and having the ability to download flight data from individual airplanes’ engines, which would aid in scheduling inspection and repairs.
“This testbed gives us a network with unprecedented speed and bandwidth and positions us well to carry out research programs that combine digital technologies like augmented reality, sensors, and robotics,” said Eric Tucker, GE's senior director of technical products. “It increases the scale at which we can develop and test these technologies to improve industrial assets and systems like wind turbines or whole wind farms, or in healthcare, to improve patient care within the halls of the hospital… and beyond.”