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

The Japanese company will increase the team destined 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, Equipment, IoT systems and services.

The software lab of 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 line of business for the Internet of Things (Internet of Things – IoT).

That's why, The company has announced that it will increase its workforce by two hundred people (Until now it was composed of forty professionals) for your fiscal year 2020, that ends the 31 of March of this year.

According to data from the consultant Gartner, the IoT market continues to experience unprecedented growth, estimated in 26.000 million software-linked devices per year 2020. An unstoppable trend all over the planet as evidenced 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 significant efforts for the development of IoT through the creation of the Internet Industrial Consortium. (IIC), which implies a significant increase in manufacturers of electrical and electronic devices, Companies engaged in the manufacture of semiconductor materials and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment. For its part, Japanese manufacturers are also betting on initiatives that combine hardware and software technologies., thus promoting new business opportunities as a result of the proliferation of IoT.

The R+D activity of the Kyocera software lab has been constant since its creation, in order to increase their capacity for technological innovation and facilitate the creation of new companies through the integration of components, Devices, Equipment, Systems & Services. In December 2015, Adopted IBM Bluemix, A platform as a service (Paas) that provides the database and infrastructure needed to create, Deploy and manage applications for the cloud, that has improved its productivity in software development and collaboration with its customers.

As Kazumi Saburi assures, General Manager of Software R+D at Kyocera, "Our goal is to bring innovative solutions for the IoT by combining our hardware technologies with new software lab developments.. 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 using image processing technologies, through the vehicle's 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 citizens' security., and in other sectors to improve service quality, including maintenance and forecasting of failures.

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