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GE awarded $36 million to create smart military warehouses
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General Electric s Global Research Center in Niskayuna, NY. The campus of what is known as GE Research is home to a Verizon 5G test network.GE Energy - Crerative Services
NISKAYUNA - General Electric s global research center has been awarded $36 million from the Department of Defense to create smart warehouses at military bases in San Diego, Calif. and Albany, Ga. that will use 5G data networks, robots and digital replicas of the facilities to speed up the deployment of supplies to military missions.
GE Research, which operates a 5G test network installed by Verizon at its Niskayuna campus, says the 5G-enabled warehouses will fulfill orders that used to take days or weeks in less than 24 hours. 5G networks are ten times faster than the 4G networks in use today by the majority of businesses and cell phone carriers.
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