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Ericsson
Enabling the Networked Society.
Overview
HQ Location
Sweden
Year Founded
1876
Company Type
Public
Revenue
> $10b
Employees
> 50,000
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Stock Ticker
NASDAQ: ERIC
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Company Description
Ericsson provides services, software and infrastructure in mobility, broadband and the cloud that enable the communications industry and other sectors to do better business, increase efficiency, improve their users' experience and capture new opportunities.
Year founded: 1876
Revenue: $26.8 billion (2014)
NASDAQ: ERIC
Year founded: 1876
Revenue: $26.8 billion (2014)
NASDAQ: ERIC
IoT Solutions
The Internet of Things (IoT) will have a profound impact in the future. Enabling anything to be connected and providing ’smartness’ to these connected things will bring value across a number of sectors in the Networked Society.
Ericsson is engaged with a number of partners from industry and academia in an EU-funded research project called the IoT Initiative with the objective of increasing the benefits and possibilities of IoT, but also identifing and proposing ways to tackle the challenges.
The project analyzed about 150 application scenarios of strategic importance. A selected subset were tested in surveys which went out to a number of users and professionals within the ICT community.
Ericsson is engaged with a number of partners from industry and academia in an EU-funded research project called the IoT Initiative with the objective of increasing the benefits and possibilities of IoT, but also identifing and proposing ways to tackle the challenges.
The project analyzed about 150 application scenarios of strategic importance. A selected subset were tested in surveys which went out to a number of users and professionals within the ICT community.
Key Customers
AT&T, O2, Sprint
IoT Snapshot
Ericsson is a provider of Industrial IoT infrastructure as a service (iaas), platform as a service (paas), and networks and connectivity technologies, and also active in the automotive, chemicals, mining, telecommunications, and transportation industries.
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Technology Stack
Ericsson’s Technology Stack maps Ericsson’s participation in the infrastructure as a service (iaas), platform as a service (paas), and networks and connectivity IoT Technology stack.
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