Blackberry advances IoT initiatives at CES

BlackBerry has made a number of announcements at CES around its QNX portfolio. 

The company said that BlackBerry IVY, a cloud-connected automotive AI platform co-developed by BlackBerry and Amazon Web Services (AWS), has been pre-integrated on three commercially available digital cockpit platforms from Bosch and PATEO. 

PATEO, an Internet of vehicles (IoV) technology service and product provider in China, also announced that Dongfeng Motor, one of China’s largest automakers, has selected a BlackBerry IVY-powered PATEO Digital Cockpit for the all-electric Dongfeng Motor VOYAH H97 model. The decision follows the successful completion of a proof of concept (POC) project. 

Source: Blackberry. The Garmin Unified Cabin at CES.

Other wins included Garmin, which selected BlackBerry QNX technology for its Android Automotive-based proof of concept demonstration at CES 2023. BlackBerry provided Garmin with the BlackBerry QNX Neutrino RTOS and QNX Hypervisor. Garmin chose BlackBerry QNX because of the company’s deep expertise and strong track record of providing leading edge embedded software solutions that deliver safety, reliability and security, along with the company’s support for Google’s latest Android Automotive operating system (AAOS) reference implementation (Trout 1.0).

BlackBerry separately announced that global automotive supplier Marelli has selected the BlackBerry QNX Acoustics Management Platform (AMP) as part of its enhanced in-car audio experience within software-defined vehicles. Expanding the companies’ seven-year collaboration, Marelli will deploy the QNX AMP and QNX Hypervisor to improve voice command accuracy and reduce unwanted echo and background noise that can spoil in-vehicle hands-free communications.

Blackberry also said that the cloud-enabled version of the company’s QNX Neutrino RTOS and QNX OS for Safety are now available in AWS Marketplace.

BlackBerry and Texas Instruments further unveiled the QNX Academy for Functional Safety, an online software developer enablement programme designed to turbocharge software innovation and de-risk product development for embedded systems. The new training academy seeks to accelerate the development of systems that are safe and secure and that offer real-time performance.

Both BlackBerry QNX and Texas Instruments development tools, evaluation hardware, software, and self-paced training will be made available to embedded software developers.