KDDI, the second-largest mobile operator in Japan, and electronics giant Hitachi announced further collaboration in the development of their respective IoT platforms.
KDDI is leveraging Hitachi's IoT platform, Lumada to further enhance its own IoT platform known as the 'Global Communication Platform' that enables centralized IoT connection management across all global operators.
In May 2016, Hitachi began offering Lumada, an IoT platform created through a blending of Hitachi's accumulated operational technology in the manufacturing industry, along with its IT expertise which include AI, Big Data analysis and other state-of-the-art digital technologies.
Linking KDDI's Global Communication Platform with Hitachi's Lumada will enable KDDI to support clients in their worldwide IoT business expansion efforts, fully leveraging Hitachi's broad-ranging industrial capacity and proven performance.
At the same time, Hitachi will leverage KDDI IoT Worldwide Architecture that provides services ranging from IoT connectivity to data analysis, enabling worldwide connectivity that links vehicles, industrial machinery and a range of other 'things'.
KDDI and Hitachi plan to test out the management applications of the KDDI IoT Worldwide architecture to create new value from the vast and diverse data gleaned from plants and equipment in a wide range of fields such as construction machinery, manufacturing plants, energy, transportation and other forms of social infrastructures. This is a part of a broader effort by KDDI to accelerate the promotion of worldwide IoT business deployment.
