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| Supplier Slogan | A Better Life, A Better World. | Accelerating through the Power of Broadcom Technology. | Inspire the Next. | The Internet of Things Starts with Intel Inside. | | Powering Business Worldwide | Enabling the Networked Society. | | |
| HQ Location | Japan | United States | Japan | United States | Italy | Ireland | Sweden | Germany | China |
| Year Founded | 1918 | 1991 | 1910 | 1968 | 1872 | 1911 | 1876 | 1999 | 1985 |
| Company Type | Public | Public | Public | Public | Public | Public | Public | Public | Public |
| Stock Ticker | OTCMKTS: PCRFY | NASDAQ: AVGO | OTCMKTS: HTHIY | NASDAQ: INTC | OTCMKTS: PRYMY | NYSE: ETN | NASDAQ: ERIC | OTCMKTS: IFNNY | OTCMKTS: ZTCOY |
| Revenue | > $10b | > $10b | > $10b | > $10b | $1-10b | > $10b | > $10b | $1-10b | > $10b |
| Employees | > 50,000 | 10,001 - 50,000 | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | 1,001 - 10,000 | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | 10,001 - 50,000 | > 50,000 |
| Website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website |
| Twitter Handle | @panasonic | @Broadcom | @hitachi_us | @intel | @PrysmianGroup | @switchoneaton | @ericsson | @Infineon | @ZTEPress |
| Company Description | Panasonic is a Japanese multinational electronics corporation that has grown to become one of the world's largest electronics producers. In addition to electronics, it offers non-electronic products and services. Year founded: 1918 | [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. | 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 | Intel designs, manufactures, and sells integrated digital technology platforms worldwide. The company's platforms are used in various computing applications comprising notebooks, desktops, servers, tablets, smartphones, wireless and wired connectivity products, Wearables, transportation systems, and retail devices. It offers microprocessors that processes system data and controls other devices in the system; chipsets, which send data between the microprocessor and input, display, and storage devices, such as keyboard, mouse, monitor, hard drive or solid-state drive, and optical disc drives; system-on-chip products that integrate its central processing units with other system components onto a single chip; and wired network connectivity products.
Featured Subsidiaries/ Business Units:
- Intel Inside
- Intel Data Center Manager (DCM)
- Saffron Technology
- Wind River | Prysmian Group is the world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry. With over 130 years experience and a presence in more than 50 countries around the world, and with 20,000 people and 91 plants, the Group is strongly positioned at the high-tech end of the energy and telecom cable sectors. The Group was created through the union of Prysmian and Draka, already leaders in their markets for innovation and technological know-how. | Eaton provides energy-efficient solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power more efficiently, safely and sustainably.
Year founded: 1911
Revenue: $22.6 billion (2014)
NYSE: ETN | 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 | Infineon is a semiconductor manufacturer with a focus on automotives, industrial power control, power management, and chip cards and security. | ZTE Corporation is a global leader in telecommunications and information technology. Founded in 1985 and listed on both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges, the company has been committed to providing integrated end-to-end innovations to deliver excellence and value to consumers, carriers, businesses and public sector customers from over 160 countries around the world to enable increased connectivity and productivity. ZTE believes in technology innovation as a core value of the company, investing more than 10% of annual revenue in R&D. The company has established state-of-the-art global R&D centres in USA, Sweden, China and so forth. ZTE has filed applications for more than 74,000 patents, with over 37,000 granted. Since 2010, ZTE has been ranked among the world's Top-5 for patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) each year, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization. |
| IoT Solutions | The Internet of Everything is based on the idea that devices, objects and systems can be connected in simple, transparent ways to enable seamless sharing of information and coordinated and intelligent operations across all of them. As no single company can accomplish the level of Interoperability required to support the Internet of Everything and address everyday, real-life scenarios, a united, pan-industry effort is needed to deliver new experiences to consumers and businesses. Panasonic pledges to provide companies with royalty-free access to some of its Internet of Things (IoT) software and patents as way to speed up the development of new IoT software and services. The company is adopting the model of the open-source software movement by sharing its software and product experience in Cloud Computing technologies. | 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. | 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. | From monitoring the energy efficiency of our homes to finding more productive ways to feed the global population, harnessing these connected “things” and turning massive amounts of raw data into actionable insights will have a transformative impact on society. However, both technical and business challenges are slowing IoT adoption. Decision makers within companies are trying to gain a better grasp of expected ROI, cost, and scalability, while IT managers struggle with integration, Interoperability, management, and the need to tailor to specific verticals.
Intel is addressing these challenges by offering open and scalable products, fostering a thriving ecosystem, and showing what is possible with pilots and use cases that demonstrate the potential value and ease of deployment. Intel offers a comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end hardware and software with built-in security.
To make IoT simpler to deploy and scale across applications quickly, Intel offer the Intel IoT Platform, a design blueprint that details how to securely connect and manage a fleet of “things” from small sensors to huge server farms that make up the cloud, while using various analytics tools and technologies along the way. | | With IoT, virtually any object, person or even animal can be assigned an IP address and provided with the ability to transfer data over a network. For instance, a patient with an implanted heart monitor, a farm animal with a biochip transponder and an automobile with built-in sensors are all achievable thanks to IoT. Eaton's Electrical Sector and Hydraulics Group engineers are actively looking at integrating the IoT across a growing number of products. By capturing data that exists within components and systems and making it available, these products will be able to provide actionable knowledge to improve performance. | 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. | When physical things are equipped with smart sensor and microchip technology and completely connected to one another, they autonomously transmit information and data digitally over the Internet. With the aid of these interfaces, real things can be controlled remotely via virtual commands – in a cyber-physical manner.
The data and information exchanged faces a growing number of risks. Inadequately secured systems are open not only to espionage and data theft, but also to malevolent manipulation. Infineon has developed security solutions that combine innovative hardware security and state-of-the-art Encryption technology – after all, it's better to be safe than sorry.
Infineon has developed a broad range of easy-to-deploy semiconductor technologies to counter growing security threats in the IoT. These solutions enable system and device manufacturers as well as service providers to capitalize on growth opportunities by integrating the right level of security without compromising on the user experience. Complemented by software and supporting services, our hardware-based products create an anchor of Trust for security implementations, supporting device integrity checks, Authentication and secure key management. | ZTE Network Intelligent Series Solution: ZTE uSmartNet network intelligent series solutions, including uSmartNet overall solution and intelligent sub-solutions in the three fields of wireless, transport and service. This series of solutions is the evolution of cloud-based network ElasticNet solution. Cloud native 5G core network Solution: Based on the Cloud Native architecture, ZTE Common Core uses lightweight virtualization technologies to divide network functions in details into atomic stateless micro-service components. The DevOps development operation and maintenance integration model satisfies the continuous and rapid delivery of services and achieve scenario-oriented slicing on-demand customization of 5G through flexible invocation and integration of components. The continuous integration and release of applications responds to the market demands more rapidly. Grayscale release reduces upgrade disks and promotes user experiences. ZTE Common Core provides stateless designs for faster scaling and higher reliability. |
| Key Customers | DuPont, Japan Airlines, McDonalds | Bosch, Haier, Honeywell, LG, nest, Samsung, Sony | BMW, Cortal Consors, Die Mobiliar | Apple, Dell, HP, NTT Data, Mandic Cloud Solutions, Shanda Games G Cloud, Baidu, Chunghwa Telecom, KT Corporation, BMW | | Boeing, Navistar, Tata Motors | AT&T, O2, Sprint | ABB, Bosch, Siemens | Vodafone, Canadian Telus, Australian Telstra, China Netcom, China Mobile, China Satcom, China Telecom,China Unicom, etc. |
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IoT Snapshot | | | | | | | | | |
| Technologies | Automation & ControlSensors | Cybersecurity & PrivacyProcessors & Edge IntelligenceApplication Infrastructure & MiddlewareNetworks & ConnectivitySensors | Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Analytics & ModelingApplication Infrastructure & MiddlewareCybersecurity & PrivacyDronesPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | Platform as a Service (PaaS)Processors & Edge IntelligenceSensorsAnalytics & ModelingDronesNetworks & Connectivity | Functional Applications | Automation & ControlNetworks & ConnectivitySensors | Networks & ConnectivityInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Platform as a Service (PaaS) | Processors & Edge IntelligenceSensorsAnalytics & ModelingNetworks & ConnectivityOtherPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | Networks & ConnectivityInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Platform as a Service (PaaS) |
| Industries | | | ChemicalsConstruction & InfrastructureElectrical GridsEquipment & MachineryFinance & InsuranceHealthcare & HospitalsOil & GasRenewable EnergyRetailTransportationUtilities | AutomotiveConstruction & InfrastructureOil & GasSecurity & Public SafetyTransportationUtilities | Construction & InfrastructureTelecommunicationsTransportationUtilities | AerospaceAutomotiveBuildingsEquipment & MachineryFood & BeverageHealthcare & HospitalsMiningOil & GasRailway & MetroSpecialty VehiclesUtilities | AutomotiveChemicalsMiningTelecommunicationsTransportation | AutomotiveSemiconductorsTelecommunications | |
| Use Cases | Energy Management SystemSmart Lighting | | Energy Management SystemCybersecurityEdge Computing & Edge IntelligencePredictive MaintenanceProcess Control & Optimization | Autonomous Transportation | Remote Asset Management | Building Energy ManagementManufacturing System Automation | Predictive MaintenanceVehicle Telematics | Edge Computing & Edge Intelligence | |
| Functions | | | Business OperationDiscrete ManufacturingFacility ManagementLogistics & TransportationMaintenanceProcess Manufacturing | | | Facility Management | Discrete ManufacturingField ServicesProcess ManufacturingWarehouse & Inventory Management | Discrete ManufacturingProduct Research & Development | |
| Services | | Cybersecurity Services | Software Design & Engineering ServicesCloud Planning, Design & Implementation ServicesCybersecurity ServicesData Science ServicesTraining | | | Hardware Design & Engineering Services | | Hardware Design & Engineering ServicesSystem Integration | |
Technology Stack | | | | | | | | | |
| Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | None | None | Strong | None | None | None | Moderate | None | Minor |
| Platform as a Service (PaaS) | None | None | Strong | Strong | None | None | Minor | Minor | Minor |
| Application Infrastructure & Middleware | None | Moderate | Strong | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Analytics & Modeling | None | None | Moderate | Moderate | None | None | None | Moderate | None |
| Functional Applications | None | None | None | None | Minor | None | None | None | None |
| Cybersecurity & Privacy | None | Moderate | Moderate | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Networks & Connectivity | None | Moderate | None | Moderate | None | Moderate | Moderate | Minor | Moderate |
| Processors & Edge Intelligence | None | Moderate | None | Moderate | None | None | None | Strong | None |
| Sensors | Moderate | Moderate | None | Moderate | None | Moderate | None | Moderate | None |
| Automation & Control | Moderate | None | None | None | None | Strong | None | None | None |
| Robots | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Drones | None | None | Strong | Strong | 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 | Minor | None |
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