Highlights:

  • Qualcomm’s Aware platform furnishes ubiquitous global connectivity, intelligently optimizing and fusing location technologies with critical device management, sensor alerts, and control features.
  • The platform stretches beyond silicon, encompassing technology from PoLTE Corp and Skyhook Wireless Inc., both companies purchased by Qualcomm in 2022.

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. recently disclosed a new platform designed to enable enterprises and developers to harness real-time information and data insights so they can speed up their digital transformation programs.

The Qualcomm Aware Platform strives to respond to the issues wherein system design complexity and ecosystem fragmentation frequently prevent “internet of things” deployments from reaching their full potential. According to the company, Qualcomm Aware integrates silicon and an extensive ecosystem of hardware and software partners with a developer-friendly cloud framework to provide services for directing assets that need accurate, time-sensitive, and critical decision-making.

The platform furnishes ubiquitous global connectivity, intelligently optimizing and fusing location technologies with critical device management, sensor alerts, and control features. The integration is said to provide a new baseline for IoT and help enterprises handle operational efficiencies.

Critical use cases that Aware can serve consist of utility asset monitoring, cold chain distribution, warehouse and inventory management, and cargo shipment tracking.

The Aware service is based upon three main pillars:

  • Technology leadership
  • Enablement of an expansive ecosystem of software and hardware partners
  • Application programming interface-first architecture and developer-convenient tools that empower interoperability with leading enterprise software tools and partner clouds

The platform stretches beyond silicon, encompassing technology from PoLTE Corp and Skyhook Wireless Inc., both companies purchased by Qualcomm in 2022. The technology consists of proprietary positioning techniques and a solid global signal database of about eight billion wireless Media Access Control or MAC addresses, and hundreds of millions of cells.

As per the company, in combination with Qualcomm’s current location technology, the acquired technology empowers Aware to provide ubiquitous and intelligent location capabilities in an always-on and low-power manner. The platform is designed intelligently to work in challenging signal environments, consisting of underground, indoors, and when devices are offline, furnishing critical awareness and condition monitoring context to enterprise solutions for operational visibility and end-to-end asset.

The platform comprises the encryption and mutual authentication of all device-to-cloud communications and cloud security tools. It also supplies device management, global cellular connectivity, and provisioning.

Senior vice president and general manager of connected smart systems at Qualcomm, Jeff Torrance, said, “Qualcomm Technologies is rapidly diversifying with new opportunities. Qualcomm Aware is designed to support organizations across industries with a scalable, cost-effective, capital-efficient investment solution that delivers an accelerated time to market, simplifies digital transformation, and delivers transformative insights needed to mitigate risk, make more informed business decisions, and navigate challenges across industries.”

Initial launch partners include BASF SE, Ferrero International S.A., Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd.), Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp, Microsoft Corp, Maersk A/S and Mondelēz International Inc., among others.

The availability of Qualcomm Aware is expectedly later this year.