The IMPACT platform targets areas including connected cars, eHealth and smart cities
Finnish vendor Nokia has officially launched its new Intelligent Management Platform for All Connected Things, which gives operators, enterprises and governments a secure platform on which to scale new “internet of things” services.
Nokia said the IMPACT platform handles data collection, event processing, device management, data contextualization, data analytics, end-to-end security and applications enablement for any device, any protocol and across any application.
The IMPACT platform also includes Nokia’s Motive Connected Device Platform, a converged device management platform that provides life cycle management for more than 80,000 models of broadband, home and IoT devices. The latest edition, released on June 14, integrates all Nokia mobile and IoT device management software.
IMPACT is a cloud-based platform enabling customers to add on-demand server capacity to support massive numbers of connected devices. The platform also includes network, cloud and end-point security. It also implements the latest lightweight machine-to-machine security model for IoT device management and is backed by Nokia’s extensive security portfolio.
“Our new IMPACT platform with Motive CDP is particularly strong in device management, security and analytics. These matter because as we work to collect and derive meaning from IoT data, it becomes more valuable to everyone involved – and more crucial to protect,” Bhaskar Gorti, Nokia’s president of the applications and analytics business group, said.
Frank Ploumen, IoT product strategy director at Nokia, told RCR Wireless News that the IMPACT 12.2 is available now, while the IMPACT 12.3 platform will be released in the fall.
“IMPACT will play a critical role in the overall IoT strategy as it will enable scalable, secure connectivity and data collection which is the base for any vertical solution offer,” Ploumen said. The new solution is an evolution designed for IOT in the last couple of years based on existing Nokia product developments, which have been matured over many years.”
Ploumen also said the IMPACT platform has applications to many verticals and that Nokia expects to see high demand particularly in verticals where security matters, such as connected cars and eHealth as well as in multi-application eco-systems such as smart cities.
