COLOMBES, France - Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Oberthur Technologies (OT), a world leader in digital security solutions
for the mobility space, today announced its partnership with
Cumulocity, the leading ‘Internet-of-Things’ (IoT) platform provider, to
offer an application enablement and objects management platform for the
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) markets. This new
OT solution has the flexibility to address various M2M use cases from
fleet management and asset tracking to industrial remote maintenance and
surveillance, among many others.
The IoT market is exploding in many verticals with industrial
machines, vehicles, smart meters and also wearable devices getting
connected. Beyond connectivity, market stakeholders such as mobile
operators, OEMs and enterprises need to remotely control and automate
the management of these objects. OT is now able to propose a simple and
secure solution to help them collect data from any connected object over
any network, manage them in real-time including remote configuration
and software updates or real-time alerts, and easily develop business
applications.
Thanks to OT platform, OEMs, M2M/IoT enterprises and leading mobile
operators will accelerate the launch of new service offerings, with
simple integration into their existing IT infrastructure. This
future-proof solution offers maximum scalability and native support for
Big Data use cases, including Big Data collection, storage and analysis.
The partnership expands OT’s existing M2M portfolio, already
including secure elements and solutions to manage the connectivity, to
monitor the network quality and the continuity of service, and to secure
the end-to-end communication between devices and service providers.
“Connected objects are expected to reach tens of billions by 2020.
OT’s comprehensive, robust and flexible M2M offer is designed to help
our customers tackle the challenges and seize the full benefits of
upcoming Internet of Things growth while addressing the very important
security aspects related to IoT. By joining forces with Cumulocity we
are extending our offer beyond connectivity and security and moving up
the M2M value chain” said Marek Juda, Managing Director of the Solutions
Business Unit at OT.
“The industry is moving from utilizing M2M technology purely for
productivity gains to fully leveraging the innovating power of Internet
technology. The ‘Internet of Things’ is going to be based on open cloud
platforms to integrate real time machine and sensor data with existing
IT systems, mash-ups of Internet services and new applications.
Cumulocity terms this industry transition ‘Connect to Innovate’. In
close collaboration with OT, our customers will be able to capitalize on
the IoT based on secure, mobility-oriented and highly extensible
Software-as-a-Service offerings” said Bernd Groß, CEO of Cumulocity.
ABOUT OBERTHUR TECHNOLOGIES
OT is a world leader in digital security solutions for the mobility
space. OT has always been at the heart of mobility, from the first smart
cards to the latest contactless payment technologies which equip
millions of smartphones. Present in the Payment, Telecommunications and
Identity markets, OT offers end-to-end solutions in the Smart
Transactions, Mobile Financial Services, Machine-to-Machine, Digital
Identity and Transport & Access Control fields. OT employs over 6
000 employees worldwide, including 600 R&D people. With more than 50
sales offices across 5 continents and 10 facilities, OT’s international
network serves clients in 140 countries. For more information: www.oberthur.com
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ABOUT CUMULOCITY
Cumulocity is the leading provider of Internet-of-Things (IoT)
software and solutions. Our origins as part of Nokia Siemens Networks,
the world's mobile broadband specialist, gives us the experience of
managing networks of millions of devices in a reliable, rapidly scalable
and flexible manner. Cumulocity Software-as-a-Service offerings
fundamentally reduce complexity and makes Internet-of-Things technology
affordable to everyone. Cumulocity has set new industry standards and
received innovation awards. Our open, application centric and free to
try offering includes our comprehensive developer environment, cloud
enabled starter kits, IoT specific device management, real time ‘Big
Data’ analytics as well as applications in key verticals including
retail, industrial Internet and real time tracking. For more information
see www.cumulocity.com.
Contacts
MEDIA CONTACTS
Oberthur Technologies
Audrey Besnardeau, Tel.: +33 1 78 14 76 75
a.besnardeau@oberthur.com
FTI Consulting Strategic Communication
Guillaume Granier/Eric Fohlen-Weill, Tel.: +33 1 47 03 68 10
oberthur@fticonsulting.com
MEDIA CONTACTS
Cumulocity
Email: MediaRelations@cumulocity.com
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