Qualcomm & AT&T look to accelerate the Internet of Things
January 8, 2013
Internet of Everything (credit: Cisco)
Qualcomm and AT&T want to make the process of creating Internet of Things (IoT) devices and applications easier, ReadWrite Mobile reports.
The companies announced a joint project called the Internet of Everything development platform to decrease time to market for IoT projects
It’s based on Qualcomm’s QSC6270-Turbo chipset and Gobi modem for 3G connections, and uses AT&T’s cellular data bandwidth to connect things to the Web.
Qualcomm and AT&T join a growing community of machine-to-machine (M2M) companies working to make the Internet of Things possible. The leaders in M2M development over the last several years have been companies like Cosm, Numerex and KORETelematics, while other consumer- or enterprise-focused companies like Google (with Android) and Research In Motion (with its QNX-based BlackBerry 10 system) also have software platforms that could provide the capability to integrate items like home utilities and aspects of automobiles on the Web.
Qualcomm and AT&T mention healthcare, energy and automotive as sectors that will be able to use the Internet of Things to provide tracking, remote control, and analytics.
Comments (4)
by JC
If 3 items in a wifi area have GPS in them, can software be written to determine the positions of all the other connected items in the area, by their relative signal strengths?
by Editor
Yes, it’s called “Wi-Fi positioning,” but it’s an alternative to GPS and does not require it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system
by JC
Thanks!
by Mark Harrison
Oh goodness, another standard – just what we need.
Things like the xAP standard are over 10 years old, but every couple of years, along comes a new initiative and a new protocol to try to do the same.