Qualcomm Technologies has announced its IoT Services Suite, which delivers end-to-end, IoT-as-a-service (IoTaaS).

This aims to enable the digital transformation of smart cities and smart connected spaces globally. The suite also demonstrates the continued momentum of the firm’s smart cities accelerator programme, which has brought together around 300 members since its launch in April 2019 and showcased a tangible example of what can be achieved with the launch of a smart campus in San Diego.

Adopting smart connected spaces often requires sourcing, developing and integrating fragmented technologies. In response, the smart cities accelerator programme addresses the complexities and challenges around developing secure, smart, connected spaces across industries worldwide.

The IoT Services Suite is engineered to deliver end-to-end technology for plug-and-play deployment, from silicon to modules to devices to software and platform integration. When companies and municipalities use the suite and other technologies offered by members of the accelerator programme, they can bypass common fragmentation, making it easier, quicker and more cost-effective to manage and deploy smart connected spaces.

“The Qualcomm smart cities accelerator programme was designed for plug-and-play deployment of connected devices to enable the proliferation of smart cities and smart connected spaces,” said Sanjeet Pandit, senior director at Qualcomm Technologies. “To directly address the fragmented nature of the IoT industry, our smart cities accelerator programme and IoT Services Suite bridge the gap for IoT service providers and entities looking to quickly deploy smart solutions. We’re confident that our unique ecosystem of innovative programme members will continue incorporating emerging IoT partners to accelerate the transformation of city infrastructure and services to help enrich people’s lives.”

Accelerator programme ecosystem member Infinite Computer provides support for the IoT Services Suite platform layer with its Zyter SmartSpaces platform. This seamlessly integrates Qualcomm’s chipset-enabled subsystems to support middleware, data operations, cloud services, enhanced security, user experience, analytics, collective intelligence and artificial intelligence (AI). Commercial device enablement is then achieved through pre-integration and pre-certification on the platform.

With the IoT Services Suite, ecosystem members can create and deploy smart applications as a service across verticals, including:

• Smart cities and spaces-as-a-service delivers smart lighting, signage, parking and more, all deployed with the Zyter SmartSpaces platform for the accelerated development of smart cities and smart spaces.
• Education-as-a-service allows school districts across the USA direct access to ecosystem members OneScreen and HoverCam to enable smart classrooms and hybrid learning settings.
• Construction management-as-a-service prioritises construction safety and digital management of construction sites, focusing on worker safety with ecosystem member Everguard.
• Logistics-as-a-service enables digital, end-to-end logistical chain management from teams to inventory with Cloudleaf and Tag-N-Trac.
• Healthcare-as-a-service provides direct access to ecosystem members Zyter, LucidAct Health, VeeMed and Ceiba for remote patient monitoring and Tele ICU capabilities.

“We’re thrilled to collaborate with Qualcomm Technologies to deliver end-to-end solutions, enabling digital transformation across multiple verticals and industries through the IoT Services Suite,” said Sanjay Govil, chairman and founder of Infinite and Zyter. “Bringing together Qualcomm Technologies’ impressive smart cities ecosystem with our unique Zyter SmartSpaces platform enables us to deliver versatile and effective end-to-end solutions with faster time to market, meeting the needs of communities, businesses and municipalities globally.”

To exemplify IoTaaS and bring to life a tangible proof point of the IoT Services Suite, Qualcomm also launched a smart campus in San Diego, which exhibits a real-life use case of commercially available, end-to-end technology. Replicating a city environment in a campus, the smart campus includes a 5G network, and various intelligent capabilities, including smart parking, lighting, transportation, logistics, rubbish bins and edge-AI cameras for security.

The campus is equipped with intuitive and user applications and a corresponding command and control centre that serves as the nerve centre of the campus, providing operational visibility across entire networks of connected sensors and IoT devices in real time, viewable from a dashboard. These services can be reimagined and replicated across multiple industries to address challenges and needs for particular spaces and communities.