Mountain View, Calif., Feb. 23, 2017: Enterprise mobility management company MobileIron has announced the setting up of an Internet of Things (IoT) division which will focus on “building an end-to-end chain of trust”, as it put it, from sensor to app to gateway to Cloud to network.
The announcement was made at MobileIron’s Analyst Day.
Many existing IoT systems have significant limitations because they are highly customised and inflexible, which makes them hard to configure and expensive to maintain over the system’s lifecycle.
MobileIron’s IoT platform will be designed to:
- Use a standards-based, open systems approach for interoperability;
- Deliver scalable, automated lifecycle management to mitigate against the possibility of human errors;
- Protect the integrity and the security of petabytes of moving data; and
- Provide continuity for systems that are too critical to fail.
“There’s been a lot of hype around the Internet of Things and most of it is just that: hype. The mistake that a lot of companies make with IoT is that they start by looking at the problem from the sensor up,” said Barry Mainz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MobileIron. “Our customer-focused approach is exactly the opposite. Over the last year, we have worked hand-in-hand with our customers and global operator partners to understand how companies want to use IoT and what challenges they face. As a result, we have defined specific use cases in healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and automotive where we can help our customers. This creates a tremendous opportunity for us.”
MobileIron’s IoT solution applies the company’s software leadership and innovation to this new market opportunity. MobileIron’s three-point architecture of policy engine, edge client, and network gateway is directly applicable to the challenges of IoT deployments.
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