The Qualcomm Aware Platform is a comprehensive IoT platform that will help digitally transform and modernize industries. It unifies powerful hardware, built-in connectivity and services such as precise and accurate positioning, edge connectivity and control, and asset conditioning monitoring solutions, all delivered through a single, intelligent cloud platform.  Through combining hardware, connectivity and services in a single, easy-to-use platform, Qualcomm Aware will help enterprises overcome the current fragmentation in the IoT space and deliver ubiquitous, end-to-end asset visibility in real-time with data-driven insights that can be utilized to improve operational efficiency.  

The Qualcomm Aware Platform will empower developers and enterprises to revolutionize industry value chains, delivering real-time intelligence and visibility through intuitive and scalable cloud-based solutions and services using the unified power of location, condition monitoring and edge control. While the Qualcomm Aware platform will have broad applicability across many industries – smart buildings, manufacturing, energy and utilities, retail and more – the initial launch of the Qualcomm Aware platform is focused on providing real-time visibility and condition monitoring for assets in transit.

Qualcomm Technologies believes that enabling a world where virtually everything and everyone is intelligently connected can be transformative. Whether that’s through digitally disrupting supply chains, the energy and utilities sector, payments or beyond, there are countless opportunities for informed decision making and efficiencies to be gained through data-driven insights and real-time awareness. Qualcomm has a long history in driving industry-changing innovations throughout industries, and the Qualcomm Aware Platform builds on that history to solve for a fragmented technology landscape. This fragmentation leaves service providers to integrate discrete point solutions to add digitalization capabilities, which is not an optimal integrated solution approach. For example: real-time visibility providers work with original device manufacturers (ODMs) to develop hardware, mobile network operators (MNOs) or mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) for connectivity, then internally develop or use third-party IOT platforms and finally develop Application. 

By creating a comprehensive platform that’s built on highly capable silicon, a diverse set of connectivity solutions with easy cloud-based access to device control and real-time insights, all designed to work seamlessly together, Qualcomm seeks to empower developers and enterprises with the next generation of transformative foundational technologies with cloud-based services and ease of access like never before.

The Qualcomm Aware Platform operates in the cloud to deliver easy-to-use, low-latency, security focused, and customizable solutions for visibility, condition monitoring, and remote asset control at the edge.

The Qualcomm Aware Platform offers programmatic access to a broad foundational technology ecosystem and hardware solutions through cloud APIs to enable device management, control, and configuration for optimal location and sensing capabilities designed to specific use cases.

With recent investments to bolster its foundational technology solutions, Qualcomm Aware will offer cutting-edge features such as ubiquitous positioning and location intelligence capabilities through its all-in-one cloud architecture with real-time visibility. Specifically, through its recent acquisitions, Qualcomm Technologies has added industry-leading proprietary positioning techniques and a superior global signal database consisting of billions of wireless access points and hundreds of millions of cells. In combination with our existing optimized GNSS and cellular-based location services, these acquisitions will enable the Qualcomm Aware Platform to deliver intelligent and ubiquitous location capabilities. With the ability to work in even the most difficult signal environments including indoors, underground, and when devices are offline, this superior location technology suite provides important awareness and condition monitoring context to enterprise solutions, enabling end-to-end asset and operational visibility and helping businesses everywhere be more informed and prepared. 

The platform will visualize insights through dedicated dashboards or through private clouds and existing ERP systems using a series of webhooks and cloud APIs that can streamline business processes by integrating insights into systems already used by customers wishing to add connected intelligence to their operations.

Qualcomm Aware is a foundational technology platform that provides developers and enterprises a comprehensive suite of tools they need to build tailored solutions for the digital transformation of industries. Because of direct access to foundational silicon and services through the cloud, developers and enterprises can tune and optimize device settings, features, and push updates over the air. 

IoT service marketplaces on the other hand, include technologies to create solutions for a range of IoT use cases, but the components, such as location, connectivity technologies, hardware, peripheral sensors, to name a few, aren’t always designed to optimally work together. A key advantage of the Qualcomm Aware Platform is that it combines a suite of advanced technologies, best-in-class silicon, a vast array of hardware and ODM/OEM partners to deliver solutions that are specially designed to work together to maximize performance and deliver tailored, cost-effective use case designs that would otherwise not be possible with other solutions or IoT service marketplaces.

The Qualcomm Aware Platform is a first-of-its-kind solution that delivers a family of high-quality foundational technologies focused on location, condition monitoring, and edge control through the cloud through a single easy-to-use interface. Because the current state of the IoT solution market is very fragmented, enterprises are left to piecemeal their own solutions, often leaving inefficiencies and visibility gaps in the solution, and falling short of a true digitalization solution. Because Qualcomm Aware combines a number of foundational technologies under one roof and enables easy, scalable, and security-rich access to developers and enterprises through the cloud, true digitalization solutions that provide end-to-end visibility can be created in less time, with higher quality, and more cost-effectively. These foundational elements are specially designed to work together, meaning that solutions built using Qualcomm Aware are designed to be power optimized, with seamless connectivity, to enable developers and enterprises to build optimized solutions for industries.

Qualcomm Aware Blueprints are individualized, and scalable solution architectures customized for specific use cases throughout IoT. Because every use case is different with unique considerations, these blueprints are designed with specific uses in mind, so that enterprises can readily deploy the solution right for their business. Qualcomm Aware Blueprints also scale along with your business as it grows, so whether you need to add digital intelligence to more sites or assets, these blueprints are a vital partner to your business.

There are a number of technology partners and customers that will comprise the Qualcomm Aware Platform ecosystem. We’re proud to have the following partners and customers at the time of the press release announcement of the Qualcomm Aware Platform.

Qualcomm Aware can accelerate the digital transformation of industries by unifying Qualcomm silicon, device hardware, connectivity management solutions, cloud services, development tools and APIs in a highly optimized and easy-to-use IoT platform. This means that developers and enterprises can add real-time intelligence and visibility to their business value chains through simple, security-rich, and scalable cloud-based services and powerful tailored hardware solutions designed with specific industrial use cases and cloud developers in mind.

Because Qualcomm Aware combines several foundational technologies together and adds cloud functionality, it delivers a comprehensive solution that is vertically integrated and specially designed to work together, enabling developers and enterprises to utilize cloud services from day one in a resource and power optimized way. This reduces friction and time to market on the developer and enterprise journey to digitally transform their business operations.

Qualcomm Aware can address key challenges for organizations with assets that require critical, accurate, and time-sensitive decision making. The platform and services are intended to support critical use cases from cold chain distribution, utility pole leaning, cargo shipment, warehousing and more. Empowering organizations to have visibility at the connected intelligent edge is transformative to making decisions that will help minimize loss, avoid risk, make enhanced business decisions, drive operational efficiencies, and ultimately enable safety and cost savings.   

With its highly customizable framework, Qualcomm Aware is designed to seamlessly integrate with several leading ERP systems, partner clouds, and private clouds using a series of RESTful APIs and webhooks with stackable services that will allow customers to customize the solution according to various business needs. The cloud-native design of Qualcomm Aware means that end users can have a single-stream of actionable data that’s visualized in a custom dashboard or integrated into an existing ERP they may use to add meaningful insights without needing to learn an entirely new system. Users will have the ability to monitor and control assets across diverse and even remote environments with superior tracking and insights instantaneously.​ The solution will bring together an ecosystem of devices and data in a security-focused, central cloud so customers have actionable insights that deliver control of inventory in real-time.

The platform includes end-to-end security features from the device to the cloud at every tier, with data hosting providers in the United States to host the data we collect. With security-focused APIs, the data will be stored in the Qualcomm Aware cloud in accordance with customer data retention policies. We will undertake reasonable steps to protect all data, from unauthorized or accidental access, disclosure, misuse, or processing, or from alteration, destruction, or loss.  

Qualcomm Aware trackers and sensors are designed for a variety of use cases and customer needs. This is why offering an array of devices, built with considerations for a variety of location reporting frequencies, condition monitoring needs, and journey types enables the Qualcomm Aware Platform to tailor solutions based on use cases. For this reason, Qualcomm Aware offers trackers and sensors designed both for single and multiple use cases.

Shipment journeys vary, so Qualcomm Aware was designed to allow for customized device designs to accommodate a number of journey types, with setting customizations to allow for a range of location and condition reporting frequencies, helping to optimize power and device life. 

Qualcomm Aware is now available for commercial evaluation and purchase. To get more details about how you can start a trial or a subscription, please contact our sales team.

Based on the signal environment and signal type used, users can expect accuracy of approximately 10 meters, with the potential to increase accuracy depending on the signal environment and after a site survey. Additionally, a key feature of the Qualcomm Aware Platform is to offer power-optimized positioning algorithms that deliver a combination of ubiquitous accuracy and precision while helping deliver a long usable device life.

Qualcomm Aware is designed to be easy to implement and visualize insights that matter most to your business. Because Qualcomm Aware solutions are designed with a variety of business needs in mind, pricing varies depending on journey type and duration, with flexible hardware and subscription-based pricing models to best fit customer needs. Our sales team will work with you to find the best pricing model for your use case.

The Qualcomm Aware family of devices are IP67 certified.

The Qualcomm Aware Tracker features a 2600mAh battery, which means it can be used for approximately 90 days, depending on location and condition reporting frequency needed to address particular use cases.

There are many devices that use chipsets also found in Qualcomm Aware enabled devices. Much like Qualcomm Aware devices, products that are currently in the market are also built with specific use cases in mind. This is why in the future, select Qualcomm Aware services will be supported on existing devices through software upgrades. More information on timing will be provided in the second half of the year.

The Qualcomm Aware Platform offers global coverage across more than 200 countries through partnerships with over 500 operators. This delivers superior connectivity and managed services even as devices roam, with built-in platform intelligence that enables optimal connectivity through intelligent signal switching based on coverage quality in a particular area. This means that underlying platform logic automatically delivers connectivity through the most reliable signal type depending on the environment devices are in.