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Canada is a vast country linked by extensive transportation routes, from roads to rail to air. The Industrial Internet will bring Canadians closer together by making trucks, locomotives and jet aircraft using those routes more efficient.

The new ingredient? Advanced sensors that will monitor vehicle operations and send waves of rich data — the ones and zeros of binary information — to computers armed with sophisticated data analytics programs. This intelligence will provide human decision makers, including drivers, pilots, dispatchers, fleet manager and engineers, with the information they need to make travel faster, cheaper and more efficient.

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Fuel savings will be the most obvious advantages. GE estimates that the transportation sector consumes 27% of the world’s energy. Heavy fleets, including trucks, aircraft, and locomotives, consume about half that energy.

Significant fuel efficiencies can be achieved by monitoring the rotating parts of each vehicle, including motors, turbines, engines, drives, fans, compressors, wheels and alternators.