GE’s Grid Solutions Monitoring & Diagnostics (GE) group and PhotonFirst have announced a strategic technology collaboration for the development of transformer monitoring solutions.GE has selected PhotonFirst as it’s preferred partner for development and supply of smart transformer monitoring systems. Fiber optical sensing based on integrated photonics offers new opportunities to monitor the performance of transformers in a scalable, low-cost, robust and intelligent way. Jointly, the parties have the ambition to develop greenfield and brownfield solutions, fully integrating with GE’s asset monitoring software solutions.
