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BlackBerry
Limited
a world leader in mobile
communications, today unveiled a series of initiatives, codenamed
Project Ion, to help businesses easily connect people, devices and
machines, and derive value from these connections. Project Ion is a
cornerstone of BlackBerry's vision to offer end-to-end solutions for
the Internet of Things.
According to Forrester Research, Inc., "New smart products and the
systems that connect them will eventually provide users with more
personalized experiences. By collecting and combining both personal
data and contextual information from the surrounding environment in
real time, these products will give individuals experiences that
serve them in their immediate moment of need."(1)
"As connectivity costs continue to fall and connected technologies
become pervasive, a new market is emerging - the Internet of Things,"
said John Chen, Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry. "Billions of
connections, generating trillions of transactions and exabytes of
data daily, will require platforms that can operate securely on a
global scale. No other company is in a better position than
BlackBerry to provide the technological building blocks, applications
and services needed to enhance productivity, improve real-time
decision making and deliver on the vision of the Internet of Things."
Project Ion was announced at the O'Reilly Solid Conference (May
21-22, San Francisco). It will offer the resources necessary to
access massive amounts of data from multiple disparate sources and
distill it into meaningful, actionable information using open source
and third party analytic tools. This deeper insight will empower
companies and organizations across a range of industries. These
include doctors and caregivers who require real-time diagnosis
information to improve patient care, consumer products companies
seeking new ways to better understand and engage with their
customers, insurers pursuing more accurate risk profile information
and manufacturers in need of better logistics and control data.
Project Ion will focus on developing a host of Internet of Things
resources, including:
-- A secure public application platform that will enable a new generation
of IoT applications that can access massive amounts of data from
multiple sources and allow businesses to make timely, informed
decisions. Powered by QNX(R) technology and BlackBerry secure enterprise
mobility management, this platform will securely manage data from
millions of end points across multi-device, multi-platform environments.
-- Facilitation of an Internet of Things ecosystem consisting of partners,
carriers and application developers looking to connect an ever-growing
number of Internet-enabled devices on a secure public applications
platform.
-- Strategic partnerships, including membership in the Industrial Internet
Consortium(TM) (IIC), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to driving
standards-based technologies for industry, academia and government to
accelerate the development and availability of connected technologies.
BlackBerry is also one of the founding members of the Application
Developer Alliance (ADA), an association that focuses on advancing
application development while helping to solve current challenges such
as security and privacy.
Select partners and developers will soon have early access to the
product component of Project Ion. To learn more about this project
and to sign up for the product Beta, go to
www.blackberry.com/project-ion.
(1) Frank Gillett: "Pioneer Vendors: Smart, Connected Products For
The Internet Of Things," Jan. 2014
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