Every day, Qualcomm continues to enable a world where virtually everyone and everything can be digitally connected. Further expanding this connectivity leadership, our all-new Qualcomm Aware Platform (Qualcomm Aware) digitally transforms value chains across global industries.

By delivering the best technology, richest ecosystem of hardware and software partners, developer-friendly tools, and an application programming interface (API)-first architecture, Qualcomm Aware will be the basis upon which future industrial connected intelligence solutions are built worldwide.

Qualcomm Aware addresses key ecosystem fragmentation and system design complexity challenges that businesses face, and provides a set of differentiated services for managing assets that require critical, accurate, and time-sensitive decision making. Initial industries that Qualcomm Aware will focus on are within supply chains and logistics, which are often prone to disruptions, inventory distortion, and unexpected shifts in supply and demand. 

Empowering organizations to have visibility and control of their assets through the cloud is transformative to making decisions that will help minimize loss, avoid risk, make informed business decisions, and drive operational efficiencies — all in a cost-effective way.

A look under the hood

So how does it work? Here’s a closer look at what Qualcomm Aware enables and why:

1. Diverse industrial IoT deployment

Qualcomm Aware is powered by IoT-optimized silicon, to deliver a strong base upon which integrated solutions can be built in a power-efficient way. Our industry-leading foundational technologies within the location services, and connectivity spaces are designed to be tightly integrated with the silicon and collectively deliver high performance in an ultra-low power way, enabling a variety of capabilities — including compute processing capabilities — on-device and at the edge. This means you can deploy across a wide range of IoT use cases with ease.

Accurately determining location is a critical component of being able to add awareness and connected intelligence to industries. Whether looking to track the movement of goods, pallets, containers, fleets, or any other asset, knowing their departure arrival, dwell times, and more helps businesses be more operational resilient and prepared for disruptions or future needs.

Use cases that require traceability from the source of origin to the destination are underpinned by this power-optimized, powerful, and accurate suite of location technologies that use a family of signal types, such as cellular, Wi-Fi, and global navigation satellite systems, to intelligently deliver positioning in environments around the world. 

2. Your ecosystem — unleashed

Customers using Qualcomm Aware have unprecedented selection and flexibility to choose the IoT hardware or software provider that best delivers solutions tailored to their use cases. Not only does this offer competitive pricing to customers, but it also helps reduce the design complexity and time it takes to deliver a ready-to-use solution to customers and ultimately deploy it. Because the technology used on the hardware is optimized to work seamlessly together, customers can utilize a solution that is designed to address the unique needs and considerations of specific use cases in a way that hasn’t been possible before.

This rich hardware ecosystem enables a bevy of features such as remote device and connectivity management around the world, with support for multi-carrier and roaming handoffs. With sensor fusion capabilities, Qualcomm Aware delivers contextual insights through measurements for changes in temperature, light, humidity, pressure, and more, depending on the use case. Edge-to-cloud processing and communication enables a security-rich, low-latency, power-friendly solution, regardless of the device design.

3. Easy deployment, easy use

Simplified cloud connections, developer tools, and APIs come together to make Qualcomm Aware easy to deploy and use. Enterprises to cloud developers can utilize cloud APIs, webhooks, and pre-integrations with existing enterprise applications to deliver real-time visibility and device control through the cloud in a user-friendly an intuitive way. 

This also means that whether enterprises use the Qualcomm Aware dashboard or wish to visualize insights through private clouds or existing enterprise resource planning applications, simple pre-integrated application connectors and cloud APIs are there to make the process extremely easy.

How Qualcomm Aware adds visibility and intelligence to supply chains

Supply chain challenges have been consistent sources of concern for businesses in recent years. Issues like a limited ability to forecast disruptions or changes in supply and demand, and a lack of timely asset awareness are just a few underlying reasons why businesses have struggled to combat inventory distortion, loss, and operational inefficiencies.

Whether in the supply chain, energy and utilities, construction, healthcare, manufacturing industries, or many more, the Qualcomm Aware Platform will offer the foundational tools and technologies in one easy-to-use platform to transform industries everywhere.