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| Supplier Slogan | Enabling the Networked Society. | Inspire the Next. | | Listen. Think. Solve. | Human-Centered Automation | Ingenuity for Life | | Invented for life | Accelerating through the Power of Broadcom Technology. |
| HQ Location | Sweden | Japan | United States | United States | Japan | Germany | Canada | Germany | United States |
| Year Founded | 1876 | 1910 | 1885 | 1903 | 1906 | 1847 | 1984 | 1886 | 1991 |
| Company Type | Public | Public | Public | Public | Private | Public | Public | Private | Public |
| Stock Ticker | NASDAQ: ERIC | OTCMKTS: HTHIY | NYSE: JCI | NYSE: ROK | | ETR: SIE | NASDAQ: BBRY; TMX: BB | | NASDAQ: AVGO |
| Revenue | > $10b | > $10b | > $10b | $1-10b | $1-10b | > $10b | $1-10b | > $10b | > $10b |
| Employees | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | 10,001 - 50,000 | 1,001 - 10,000 | > 50,000 | 1,001 - 10,000 | > 50,000 | 10,001 - 50,000 |
| Website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website |
| Twitter Handle | @ericsson | @hitachi_us | @johnsoncontrols | @ROKAutomation | | @Siemens | @BlackBerry | @BoschGlobal | @Broadcom |
| Company Description | Ericsson provides services, software and infrastructure in mobility, broadband and the cloud that enable the communications industry and other sectors to do better business, increase efficiency, improve their users' experience and capture new opportunities.
Year founded: 1876
Revenue: $26.8 billion (2014)
NASDAQ: ERIC | Hitachi is a highly diversified company that operates eleven business segments: Information & Telecommunication Systems, Social Infrastructure, High Functional Materials & Components, Financial Services, Power Systems, Electronic Systems & Equipment, Automotive Systems, Railway & Urban Systems, Digital Media & Consumer Products, Construction Machinery and Other Components & Systems.
Year founded: 1910
Revenue: $94.0 billion (2014)
TYO: 6501 | Johnson Controls is an American company globally offering products and services to optimize energy and operational efficiencies of buildings, automotive batteries, electronics and interior systems for automobiles.
Year founded: 1885
Revenue: $42.9 billion (2014) | Rockwell is a provider of industrial automation power, control and information solutions that helps manufacturers achieve a competitive advantage for their businesses. Rockwell operates in two segments: Architecture & Software, which deals in hardware, software and communication components of the organization, and Controls Products & Solutions that handles a portfolio of intelligent motor control and industrial control products, application expertise and project management capabilities. | As the core of the Azbil Group, this company is developing its Building Automation business in the building market, Advanced Automation business in the plant and factory markets, and Life Automation business in lifelines, health care, and other markets connected closely with everyday life.
Year founded: 1906
TYO:6845 | Siemens is the largest engineering company in Europe. With their positioning along the electrification value chain, Siemens has the knowhow that extends from power generation to power transmission, power distribution and smart grid to the efficient application of electrical energy. Featured Subsidiaries/ Business Units: - Digital Factory - Siemens Technology to Business (TTB) | BlackBerry provides wireless hardware, software, and services worldwide. Its smartphones handle mobile voice, e-mail, and text messaging, as well as Internet access and multimedia applications. The company also provides software for managing mobile devices across a company and development tools | Bosch is an industry leader in automobile and industrial equipment, as well as consumer goods and building systems. Bosch operates via 440 subsidiaries in 60 countries; its core lines include mobility (auto) systems, from diesel/hybrid drive to steering, starter motors and generators, electronics, and brakes.
Year founded: 1886
Revenue: $58.7 billion (2014)
Portfolio Companies:
- Bosch Software Innovations
- Rexroth
- Deepfield Robotics
- Escrypt
- ProSyst | [Sold to Avago Technologies]
Broadcom Corporation provides semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Its products offer voice, video, data, and multimedia connectivity in the home, office, and mobile environments. The company operates in two segments: Broadband and Connectivity, and Infrastructure and Networking. |
| IoT Solutions | The Internet of Things (IoT) will have a profound impact in the future. Enabling anything to be connected and providing ’smartness’ to these connected things will bring value across a number of sectors in the Networked Society.
Ericsson is engaged with a number of partners from industry and academia in an EU-funded research project called the IoT Initiative with the objective of increasing the benefits and possibilities of IoT, but also identifing and proposing ways to tackle the challenges.
The project analyzed about 150 application scenarios of strategic importance. A selected subset were tested in surveys which went out to a number of users and professionals within the ICT community. | The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects accessed through the Internet—essentially a "Connected Everything Platform." These objects contain embedded technology to interact with internal states or the external environment. When objects can sense and communicate, it changes how and where decisions are made, and who makes them.
IoT is connecting new places—such as manufacturing floors, energy grids, healthcare facilities, and transportation systems—to the Internet. When an object can represent itself digitally, it can be controlled from anywhere. This connectivity means more data, gathered from more places, with more ways to: increase efficiency, innovate in product development, increase asset utilization, enhance the customer experience, streamline the supply chain, and improve safety and security.
Hitachi Consulting helps apply IoT solutions to drive business value, ultimately allowing companies to be IoT innovators and become an "Enterprise of Things." Companies can learn more about Hitachi Consulting's products, solutions and expertise and how they leverage the diverse product portfolio of Hitachi to help enterprises quickly get value out of IoT capabilities. | The Internet of Things (IoT) is fueling innovation in products, services and solutions that improve building operations and performance.
For decades, Johnson Controls has been providing the equipment and systems that communicate in real-time to deliver optimized environments. With a portfolio ranging from sensors, equipment and systems through cloud-based data collection and fault detection, they offer an advanced and robust product line.
Johnson Controls smart equipment leverages embedded controls and secured connectivity to reduce the risk of downtime and improve the serviceability while optimizing efficiency and reducing energy costs. | Smart Connected Operations is a future looking vision that describes what the factory or production line of the future will look like. It will involve Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) enabled MOM applications integrated with IIoT enabled assets and IIoT enabled business systems. It is an elemental part of creating the Smart Connected Enterprise and is often where companies have breaks in the strands of the digital thread.
In moving towards this vision, both solution providers and manufacturing organizations are going to have to up the game when it comes to investing in IIoT. These investments will include the creation of new organizations that bring together IT, OT, and business leaders, new technologies that enable connectivity, cloud, big data analytics, and the development of new applications, along with the foresight to see that small pilot projects today could transform entire industries tomorrow. | | In the near future, billions of pieces of equipment will be connected to one another and massive amounts of data will pouring in. Advanced algorithms, high-powered computing, better connectivity and cloud storage all facilitate the emergence of smart systems. Knowing how to leverage the respective opportunities, however, requires a unique set of skills. Siemens has the engineering, domain and digital know-how to generate performance improvements across the entire value chain, from design to production and operations to maintenance. Digital simulation technology accelerates the plant design, the installation and commissioning as well as the entire product design and production planning process. Multiple components in systems and plants can be intelligently networked to communicate with each other and exchange real-time data. Machine Learning makes complex systems more efficient without human intervention. The intelligent analysis of operational data helps identify patterns and predict potential downtimes. Minimum downtimes boost reliability thanks to lifecycle services. | The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly taking shape. Billions of smart devices, from cars and trucks to Containers and hospital beds, will create and share data. Data permission security becomes a major concern for enterprises.
The BlackBerry IoT Platform can provide the clients that control, providing a cloud-based solution that lets clients build and manage IoT applications and devices in a secure, efficient, and scalable way.
The BlackBerry IoT Platform provides a modular architecture to rapidly add BlackBerry and third-party services into your IoT applications and, once built, a backbone for these apps and devices to communicate privately. | Many areas of our lives have already been changed by the Internet of Things, and industry is no exception. By blending the real and the virtual worlds of production via the internet, the IoT makes it possible to connect all parts of the production process: machines, products, systems, and people. This means that machines and products can communicate so they can manage themselves and each other.
Software-based system and service platforms will play a major role in tomorrow’s manufacturing; they are the only way to bring connectivity, including data analysis, to machines and workpieces in production.
Bosch's software solutions for connected manufacturing and logistics gather, visualize, analyze, and monitor machine, process, and sensor data. They then translate this data into useful information that serves as a source for their rule- and process-based actions. The transparency this creates allows clients to determine precisely where to optimize production and logistics processes along the entire value chain. | The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to grow to include more than 50 billion devices by 2020 – and Broadcom’s out-of-the-box connectivity platforms are providing developers with the tools to kick-start their life-changing devices. As a leader in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Smart, Broadcom ensures that standards-based connectivity technologies play nicely together.
With all of that embedded hardware engineering already complete, Broadcom’s hardware and Software Development Kits help to quickly turn creative IoT ideas quickly into prototypes and ready-for-market devices for both large and small companies.
Interoperability is critical to the proliferation of IoT, which is why the WICED platform is bringing secure Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless connectivity to nearly every emerging product category in the IoT ecosystem, including home appliances, health and fitness monitors, automation and asset Tracking systems, Smart Meters and an array of consumer electronics devices. |
| Key Customers | AT&T, O2, Sprint | BMW, Cortal Consors, Die Mobiliar | Organichem, Sealed Air, Steelcase, Morgan Stanley, Ericsson, Jaguar Land Rover, Fiserv (Europe) Ltd | Campari, INCO Engineering, Whyalla Steelworks | | ARUP Laboratories, Digital Realty, University of Michigan, HP, Polar Electro, Electrolux, ROJ Electronics Srl, Tokamak Energy, Grissom High School, Zipline, Bye Aerospace. | Silver Star, Air Canada, Ricoh | John Deere, Suzuki, ThyssenKrupp Steel | Bosch, Haier, Honeywell, LG, nest, Samsung, Sony |
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IoT Snapshot | | | | | | | | | |
| Technologies | Networks & ConnectivityInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Platform as a Service (PaaS) | Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Analytics & ModelingApplication Infrastructure & MiddlewareCybersecurity & PrivacyDronesPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | Cybersecurity & PrivacyNetworks & ConnectivitySensorsAutomation & Control | Automation & ControlSensorsAnalytics & ModelingNetworks & ConnectivityProcessors & Edge Intelligence | SensorsAutomation & Control | Analytics & ModelingAutomation & ControlFunctional ApplicationsPlatform as a Service (PaaS)Processors & Edge IntelligenceCybersecurity & PrivacyNetworks & ConnectivitySensors | Cybersecurity & PrivacyProcessors & Edge Intelligence | Analytics & ModelingApplication Infrastructure & MiddlewareAutomation & ControlCybersecurity & PrivacyPlatform as a Service (PaaS)RobotsSensorsFunctional ApplicationsInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | Cybersecurity & PrivacyProcessors & Edge IntelligenceApplication Infrastructure & MiddlewareNetworks & ConnectivitySensors |
| Industries | AutomotiveChemicalsMiningTelecommunicationsTransportation | ChemicalsConstruction & InfrastructureElectrical GridsEquipment & MachineryFinance & InsuranceHealthcare & HospitalsOil & GasRenewable EnergyRetailTransportationUtilities | AerospaceAutomotiveConstruction & InfrastructureEducationFinance & InsuranceHealthcare & HospitalsMarine & ShippingOil & GasRetailTelecommunicationsTransportationUtilities | | AutomotiveChemicalsElectronicsFood & BeverageMarine & ShippingMetalsOil & GasPaper & PulpPharmaceuticals | AerospaceAutomotiveBatteryBuildingsCementChemicalsConsumer GoodsEducationElectrical GridsElectronicsEquipment & MachineryFinance & InsuranceFood & BeverageGlassHealthcare & HospitalsMarine & ShippingMiningOil & GasPharmaceuticalsRailway & MetroRetailTransportationUtilities | AutomotiveBatteryEducationFinance & InsuranceHealthcare & HospitalsLife SciencesNational Security & DefenseRailway & MetroTelecommunicationsTransportationUtilities | AgricultureAutomotiveBuildingsElectrical GridsEquipment & MachineryHealthcare & HospitalsMarine & ShippingOil & GasRailway & MetroRenewable EnergyRetailTransportationUtilities | |
| Use Cases | Predictive MaintenanceVehicle Telematics | Energy Management SystemCybersecurityEdge Computing & Edge IntelligencePredictive MaintenanceProcess Control & Optimization | Perimeter Security & Access ControlBuilding Automation & ControlBuilding Energy ManagementEnergy Storage ManagementPredictive Maintenance | Machine Condition Monitoring | Building Automation & ControlWater Utility Management | Process Control & OptimizationAutomated Disease DiagnosisDigital TwinFlexible ManufacturingManufacturing Process SimulationManufacturing System AutomationPredictive MaintenanceVirtual Prototyping & Product TestingWater Utility Management | Inventory ManagementTrack & Trace of Assets | Advanced Metering InfrastructureFarm Monitoring & Precision FarmingMachine Condition MonitoringPredictive MaintenanceAgriculture Disease & Pest ManagementAsset Lifecycle ManagementDigital TwinEdge Computing & Edge IntelligenceFleet ManagementIntrusion Detection SystemsOutdoor Environmental MonitoringSmart IrrigationTrack & Trace of Assets | |
| Functions | Discrete ManufacturingField ServicesProcess ManufacturingWarehouse & Inventory Management | Business OperationDiscrete ManufacturingFacility ManagementLogistics & TransportationMaintenanceProcess Manufacturing | Facility ManagementProcess Manufacturing | | | Business OperationLogistics & TransportationMaintenanceProcess ManufacturingProduct Research & Development | Warehouse & Inventory Management | Discrete ManufacturingFacility ManagementLogistics & TransportationMaintenanceProcess Manufacturing | |
| Services | | Software Design & Engineering ServicesCloud Planning, Design & Implementation ServicesCybersecurity ServicesData Science ServicesTraining | Cybersecurity ServicesTraining | Training | | Hardware Design & Engineering ServicesSystem Integration | Training | Cybersecurity ServicesTesting & CertificationSystem Integration | Cybersecurity Services |
Technology Stack | | | | | | | | | |
| Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | Moderate | Strong | None | None | None | None | None | Minor | None |
| Platform as a Service (PaaS) | Minor | Strong | None | None | None | Moderate | None | Strong | None |
| Application Infrastructure & Middleware | None | Strong | None | None | None | None | None | Moderate | Moderate |
| Analytics & Modeling | None | Moderate | None | Minor | None | Moderate | None | Moderate | None |
| Functional Applications | None | None | None | None | None | Moderate | None | Minor | None |
| Cybersecurity & Privacy | None | Moderate | Moderate | None | None | Minor | Minor | Moderate | Moderate |
| Networks & Connectivity | Moderate | None | Moderate | Moderate | None | Moderate | None | None | Moderate |
| Processors & Edge Intelligence | None | None | None | Minor | None | Minor | Moderate | None | Moderate |
| Sensors | None | None | Minor | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | None | Moderate | Moderate |
| Automation & Control | None | None | Moderate | Moderate | Minor | Strong | None | Minor | None |
| Robots | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | Moderate | None |
| Drones | None | Strong | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Wearables | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Actuators | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Other | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
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