WATERLOO, ON and SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29, 2021
/PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB and
Ridecell Inc. today announced a collaboration to bring a next
generation fleet operations and ADAS data platform to automotive
OEMs via the BlackBerry IVY™ intelligent vehicle data
platform. Ridecell chose BlackBerry because of the company's
position as a leading embedded software partner for the automotive
industry and the potential of BlackBerry IVY to scale across global
automakers.
The integrated solution would enable OEMs to provide fleet
operators with the tools they need to turn fleet management
insights into automated actions that include responding to
maintenance and diagnostics alerts, automating vehicle access
control, and vehicle disablement if stolen, along
with generating crash analytics reports to satisfy government
regulations.
Ridecell's Fleet IoT Automation Platform is the leading
platform powering digital transformation and automation for
fleet-driven businesses. With BlackBerry IVY, OEMs would be able to
easily deploy Ridecell solutions directly to the vehicle
in real-time to unlock new revenue streams and save on data
connectivity. BlackBerry IVY enables automakers to unlock rich
insights from vehicle data without significant connectivity or
cloud storage costs through a scalable, cost-effective,
car-to-cloud platform that provides developers with a consistent
and secure way to analyze sensor data.
"BlackBerry IVY's intelligent vehicle data platform transforms
the vehicle experience for OEMs, business fleet operators, and
solution providers like Ridecell," said Shiva Kumar, CFO
of Ridecell. "Ridecell is rooted in automotive mobility,
so a collaboration with BlackBerry IVY to explore what our two
companies can do together is natural for us. Bringing our fleet IoT
automation solutions to a platform that runs on all
vehicles opens up automated solutions to any fleet.
With Ridecell and BlackBerry IVY, OEMs could one day be
empowered to customize their vehicle experiences and embrace new
revenue opportunities."
The collaboration also covers Ridecell's AI-powered NEMO
Data Platform integration with BlackBerry IVY. NEMO analyzes
data from vehicle sensors and driving history to understand
critical events, including accidents. OEMs can also take advantage
of NEMO to advance their assisted driving systems to improve safety
as well as comply with the recent National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) ruling on crash analytics, as the platform
automatically generates accident reports in minutes. With
BlackBerry IVY, NEMO could use in-vehicle computing to derive
real-time AI insights and to filter for scenarios of interest,
saving on connectivity and cloud costs for the OEMs.
"With a shift to shared mobility and an industry-wide capacity
crunch that shows no signs of easing up anytime soon, the need for
fleet operators and OEMs to holistically manage the overall health
of their vehicles throughout their full lifecycle is absolutely
critical," said Peter Virk, Vice
President of IVY Product and Ecosystem, BlackBerry. "With Ridecell,
we will offer customers an intuitive platform to turn insights into
action across their entire fleet. Customers will immediately see
efficiencies that can be achieved when fleet managers and OEMs have
unparalleled visibility into their vehicle assets and the
capability to automate actions based on BlackBerry-IVY led fleet
insights."
Register now for BlackBerry Security Summit 2021 to learn
more about BlackBerry IVY and the company's growing ecosystem of
data-driven mobility partners.
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB)
provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises
and governments around the world. The company secures more
than 500M endpoints including
195M vehicles. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company leverages AI
and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions in the areas
of cybersecurity, safety, and data privacy solutions, and is a
leader in the areas of endpoint security, endpoint management,
encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry's vision is
clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.
BlackBerry. Intelligent Security. Everywhere.
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About Ridecell
Ridecell Inc. is leading the way in the digital transformation
of fleet businesses and operations. Ridecell's IoT-driven
automation and mobility platform helps businesses modernize and
monetize their fleets by combining data insights with digital
vehicle control to turn today's manual processes into automated
workflows. The result is unmatched levels of efficiency and control
for shared services, motorpool, rental, and logistic fleets.
Today Ridecell powers some of the most successful fleet
businesses in cities across Europe
and North America, including Gig
Car Share from AAA. Ridecell is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Madrid, Paris, Berlin, and Pune,
India.
Nemo is the flagship data product from Ridecell, for automating
scenario extraction in the new generation ADAS vehicles. Ridecell
is working with leading OEMs and Tier1s to automate the extraction
of interesting events like near misses, cut-ins, pedestrian
encounters, both in real time on the vehicle and from Petabytes of
historical data stored in the cloud.
Media Contacts:
BlackBerry Media Relations
+1 (519) 597-7273
mediarelations@BlackBerry.com
Ridecell Media Relations
Sarah MacKenzie
+1 (503) 720-3743
ridecell@publitek.com
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