On Wednesday, struggling handset maker BlackBerry announced Project Ion, which underscores a set of initiatives that will facilitate the delivery of services and infrastructure for the so-called Internet of Things (IoT).
The Project Ion initiative was unveiled by Alec Saunders - the head of BlackBerry's new QNX Cloud business - during a brief presentation at the O'Reilly Solid conference held on Wednesday.
QNX is an industry-leading realtime embedded OS, which was developed by independent vendor QNX Systems. BlackBerry had acquired the QNX developer firm in 2010. The QNX OS powers a wide array of devices, ranging from car entertainment systems to industrial machinery.
Noting that "QNX is literally everywhere," Saunders told the audience at the conference that BlackBerry's Project Ion initiative will essentially be a cloud backend with BlackBerry QNX which will pave the way for easy communication between the QNX-powered devices and their cloud controller.
About the Project Ion initiative unveiled at the conference, Saunders said: "We have stolen liberally from open source software in computing and networking that has been going on in the last couple of years. Many of them didn't exist in the form we are using them in, 18 months ago."
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