Reliance Industries partners with GE to provide IIOT solutions

Reliance Industries and GE have inked a global partnership agreement in the Industrial IOT (IIOT) space, whereby both the companies will work together to build out joint applications on the GE’s Predix platform.

The partnership will provide Industrial IOT solutions to customers in oil & gas, fertilizer, power, healthcare, telecom and other industries. The agreement was signed in the presence of Jeff Immelt, Chairman & CEO, GE, and Mukesh Ambani, Chairman & Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited.

“India needs to rapidly move to the next level of smart manufacturing which leverages big data, algorithms, and sensor technology. The presence of ubiquitous high-bandwidth connectivity and cloud services enabled by Jio will be a key enabler for the rapid growth of IIOT within India. Indians have been in the forefront of creating smart and innovative solutions in a number of fields. It is time we brought smart manufacturing capability in India by providing value-added IIOT solutions for the industry that will enable India’s economic growth,” said Reliance Industries CMD Mukesh Ambani,.

GE will provide its Predix cloud offering, Industrial Internet applications and data science expertise. RIL will develop solutions on Predix as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), bringing to bear its over 30 years of data, process and operational expertise. RIL will also offer nationwide connectivity infrastructure to customers through a 4G network powered by Jio. GE would offer the security, availability and monitoring aspects of the platform to RIL and its customers. The potential for other revenue streams includes telecom, healthcare and agriculture.

The benefits to customers include driving operational efficiencies, profitability and new revenue streams by making use of data and analytics. A one per cent productivity gain for companies creates US$250 billion value over 15 years, across these key energy and infrastructure industries. The digital market is growing at a fast pace with IIOT contributing the highest degree of growth at over 10 per cent. According to Gartner, there exists a market opportunity of over US$25 billion by 2022 for IIoT solutions across the four key industries of oil & gas, power, healthcare and transportation.

“India’s potential in driving the migration to digital is well appreciated. The partnership with Reliance Industries will shape the future of the Industrial Internet not just in India but globally. The possibilities that it opens to develop solutions on our Predix platform for the industrial sector are endless,” said GE Chairman & CEO Jeff Immelt.

Digital solutions have the potential to save billions of dollars each year. Use of data as the fuel and analytics as the growth engine promises to drive disruptive and positive changes across the industrial landscape.