General Electric (GE) is cracking on with its transformation into an IoT powerhouse, recently announcing the upcoming release of a hardware developer kit that aims to make it easier for businesses to add their existing equipment to GE’s Predix cloud. The application and data processing platform is shaping up to be a major player in the cloud space anyway, and GE is banking on leveraging its existing clientèle to improve its presence. GE says that it has 12,000 developers on the platform since its launch last year, and thinks that the total will hit 20,000 by the end of the year. The new dev kit aims to massively speed up the time it takes to online an application or asset, cutting the…