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GE Current Adds Networking Startup Daintree

April 25, 2016
General Electric’s six-month-old Current business unit scored a major acquisition in Daintree Networks, a provider of building controls solutions for commercial facilities.

General Electric’s fairly new Current business unit scored a major acquisition in Daintree Networks, a provider of building controls solutions for commercial facilities. GE said the acquisition will enable Current to expand its building automation platform and its energy-as-a-service offering to small- and medium-size facilities through the deployment of Daintree’s open, standards-based wireless control systems.

Today, 90 percent of the world’s small- to mid-sized buildings do not have building automation systems. Integrating Daintree Networks’ open-standard networked wireless control solution, ControlScope, into Current’s building automation portfolio addresses that problem.

Daintree’s ControlScope, combined with Current’s building automation portfolio, links data from lighting and HVAC systems directly to Predix, GE’s industrial Internet software platform – allowing customers to analyze their energy consumption and identify data patterns to increase efficiency and reduce power levels.

“By combining Daintree’s open-standard control and sensing technology with GE’s Predix platform, Current’s building automation platform and its energy-as-a-service offerings, we’ll deliver the industry’s first next-generation, scalable cloud-based energy management and facilities optimization platform for every building type and size,” said Maryrose Sylvester, President and CEO of Current, powered by GE. “Our combined strengths will help customers, big or small, achieve a reduced carbon footprint and increased energy savings, and provide a solution for ecosystem partners to grow.”

GE said the acquisition brings to Current an extensive ecosystem of value-added resellers, system integrators and device partners with long-standing experience in helping enterprises deploy and optimize ControlScope in commercial, retail and industrial environments. Upon completion of the acquisition, Current will integrate Daintree’s employees in California, Australia and Massachusetts into its structure.