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Bosch launches cloud and IoT services
Bosch is launching a cloud for internet-based services to implement applications in the areas of connected mobility, connected industry and connected buildings. The central software core of the cloud is the company's own IoT Suite.
When the free parking space announces itself: Application examples for the Bosch IoT Cloud.
© Robert BoschFirst cloud location is Germany. "We now offer all the trump cards for the connected world from a single source. The Bosch IoT Cloud is the final piece of the puzzle in our software expertise. We are now a full-service provider for connectivity and the Internet of Things," emphasized Bosch CEO Dr. Volkmar Denner at Bosch ConnectedWorld in Berlin. The company operates its IoT Cloud in its own data center near Stuttgart.
The Bosch IoT Cloud consists of technical infrastructure as well as platform and software offerings. It will initially be used for the technology and services company's own solutions. From 2017, it will also be available as a service to other companies.
Wide range of possibilities
In the IoT Cloud, for example, an online map of free park-and-ride parking spaces along the Stuttgart S-Bahn is also being created. Sensors detect which parking spaces are free and transmit this information to the cloud. This creates an up-to-date map that is transmitted to the user's smartphone. Another example is the "Book-and-Park" service for truck drivers. If the trucker is looking for a parking space for a rest stop, his vehicle transmits the position data to the IoT Cloud. The cloud then reserves a free parking space nearby and reports this to the driver.
Platform available for the IoT
The central software core of the cloud is the company's own IoT Suite. The new platform from Bosch Software Innovations offers tools for developing applications in the IoT. The individual software services in the IoT Suite are designed to offer functions to connect devices, users and companies. A large number of solutions and projects from Bosch and its customers are already based on the platform - more than five million devices and machines are already connected via the technology.
The software services are designed to enable developers to quickly build, implement and operate cloud-based and highly scalable IoT applications.
© Bosch Software InnovationsThe set of services, frameworks and containers, which already includes technology from Prosyst, a company acquired by Bosch in 2015, will be successively expanded and address the requirements of the most common IoT scenarios: The reliable management of devices, machines and gateways, secure access management, the execution of software rollout processes, the connection of third-party systems and services as well as data analysis.
A particular focus of the system architecture is the secure, encrypted connection of sensors, actuators and embedded systems, protected by a public key infrastructure (PKI). Among other things, the technologies of Escrypt, a company for security and encryption technologies acquired by Bosch in 2012, will be used here to meet the security and privacy requirements in the IoT.
Billing for the software services should be transparent for users: they are booked via service plans that are based on the number of connected devices, active users, transactions or data volumes. The IoT services are integrated into the Bosch IoT Cloud, which was also announced at the beginning of March.
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