GE Digital's Edge Manager Relies on Machine Learning and Analytic

GE Digital believes that edge computing will play a key role in the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), and that's why the company announced last October that it was expanding its Predix industrial IoT platform's capabilities to better handle computing at the network's edge. But how exactly is the company accomplishing this? In an interview with SDxCentral, GE Digital's Gytis Barzdukas, vice president and head of product management for Predix, said that the company is adding analytics and machine learning to its Predix Edge Manager, which serves as a portal to provision and manage devices. The analytics are then combined with machine learning (ML) concepts so the company can help customers predict certain behaviors. Barzdukas used Schindler Elevators as one example.