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Oct. 12, 2005
ANDOVER, Mass.—Noted GE researcher Dr. Joseph J. Salvo, a 1976 graduate of Phillips Academy, is returning to campus on Friday morning, October 14, accompanied by a 53-foot, interactive, state-of-the-art demonstration trailer featuring pervasive sensing technology he developed that is changing the global cargo shipping industry. The trailer, known as the GE Mobile Solutions Center, will be parked in front of the Cochran Chapel from 8 a.m. -1 p.m. Students, faculty, and staff are welcome to stop by for a visit.
In addition to demonstrating GE’s VeriWise™ Asset Intelligence system, Salvo will use his visit to talk about his career path as a scientist and how technology developed in a laboratory setting can be applied to business and commerce. The event will help showcase how math and science concepts learned in the classroom translate into real-world applications.
Following his visit to Phillips Academy, Salvo and the GE mobile truck will make a visit to the MIT campus in Cambridge, Mass., and then make an appearance at a trucking conference in Boston.
The GE’s VeriWise™ system utilizes technology Salvo developed to drive remote monitoring, tracking and diagnostic systems used by several GE businesses in their operations and by their customers. VeriWise is a virtual “brain,” developed by GE Trailer Fleet Services initially for the trailer portion of an 18-wheeler big rig and now being refined for rail and ocean shipping containers.
Dual satellite technology, and a trailer-mounted transceiver, can track the location of trailers, whether hooked or unhooked to a cab, as well as transmit the status of the cargo inside. VeriWise™ helps trucking companies better allocate their trailers in the face of a critical national driver shortage. VeriWise™ can also support better homeland security by offering another layer of protection as trailers and containers move from ports and rail hubs to destinations across North America.
Salvo’s research and development teams created the technology used in the VeriWise system in the Manufacturing and Business Process Laboratory located in GE’s Global Research Center in Niskayuna, N.Y, where he is the manager of process systems technology and in charge of the Pervasive Decisioning Systems Laboratory.
The Andover stop for the GE Mobile Solutions Center is part of the company’s current national tour, educating trucking companies, consumers and the public about the VeriWise™ system. In the past year, the trailer has traveled more than 50,000 miles in the United States and Canada.
Salvo earned his Ph.D. and M. Phil. degrees in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University and an A. B. in Biochemistry from Harvard University.
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