Kyocera strengthens its IoT business through the expansion of its software laboratory

The Japanese company will increase the team assigned to this area by two hundred people in order to enhance its capacity for technological innovation and facilitate the creation of new companies through the integration of components., devices, teams, IoT systems and services.

The software laboratory Kyocera, created in October 2015 with the aim of combining software and hardware technology and thus increasing the value of the solutions developed by the company, has become a key element for the expansion and acceleration of the business line for the Internet of Things (Internet of Things – IoT).

For this reason, The company has announced that it will increase its workforce by two hundred people (Until now it was made up of forty professionals) for your fiscal year 2020, that ends the 31 March of this year.

According to data from the consulting firm Gartner, IoT market continues to experience unprecedented growth, estimated at 26.000 million software-linked devices per year 2020. An unstoppable trend throughout the planet as demonstrated by the fact that in Germany, For example, the government is promoting from 2011 the computerization of all its industrial manufacturing companies with the Industry plan 4.0.

The United States is another country that is making important efforts to develop the IoT through the creation of the Industrial Internet Consortium. (CII), which implies a significant increase in manufacturers of electrical and electronic devices, companies dedicated to the manufacture of semiconductor materials and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment. For your part, Japanese manufacturers are also betting on initiatives that combine hardware and software technologies, thus promoting new business opportunities as a consequence of the proliferation of the IoT.

The R&D activity of the Kyocera software laboratory has been constant since its creation, in order to increase its technological innovation capacity and facilitate the creation of new companies through the integration of components, devices, teams, systems and services. In December 2015, adopted IBM Bluemix, a platform as a service (PaaS) which provides the database and infrastructure necessary to create, deploy and manage applications for the cloud, which has improved its productivity in software development and collaboration with its clients.

Como asegura Kazumi Saburi, General Manager of Software R&D at Kyocera, “Our goal is to provide innovative solutions for the IoT by combining our hardware technologies with new developments from the software laboratory. For decades we have supplied a wide range of components and devices to the most important industrial sectors: from automotive and information to environmental engineering, energy and health, that provide us with a unique perspective.”.

Specifically, Kyocera's IoT business development areas in the automotive industry focus on promoting and improving driverless assistance and pre-collision safety systems through image processing technologies, via vehicle camera; In the area of ​​health services, the objective is the development of digital health support systems that allow monitoring and managing different physical indicators of a patient such as pulse., blood pressure, blood glucose levels or body temperature.

In terms of security and surveillance systems, it is about using IoT technology to process high-resolution video from surveillance cameras and thus improve crime prevention and control of citizen security., and in other sectors to improve the quality of service, including maintenance and failure forecasting.