GE and AT&T Partner to Make Engines, Trains and Turbines Cellular-Capable

October 9th, 2013

What could possibly go wrong?

Via: All Things D:

General Electric is announcing a partnership with AT&T on Wednesday to add wireless capabilities to a wide range of the company’s industrial machines.

The deal — an expansion of the existing partnership between the two companies — is designed to equip millions of jet engines, locomotives, turbines and medical devices with wireless capabilities.

“Imagine a world where an airline, for example, can remotely monitor, diagnose and resolve issues with its fleet engines virtually anywhere in the world,” AT&T Business Solutions unit chief Andy Geisse said in a statement.

With nearly everyone in the world having a cellphone these days, equipping cars, appliances and other machines with cellular connections is seen as a key growth area for wireless carriers in the coming years. AT&T said it has seen a 38 percent increase in the number of machine-to-machine customers in the last year, with more than 15.2 million such devices already on its network.

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2 Responses to “GE and AT&T Partner to Make Engines, Trains and Turbines Cellular-Capable”

  1. j.biddy says:
    October 9, 2013 at 9:18 pm

    All part of a larger plan to live out the events of the Terminator franchise.

  2. afterhours says:
    October 10, 2013 at 8:01 am

    More and more, this type of so-called “progress” makes a mockery of the idea of system redundancy.

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