Freescale and ARM and Oracle add new vertical market segment support for the "all-in-one" IoT gateway platform

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Santa Clara, USA, October 29, 2013 (ARM? TechCon? 2013) - As the market demands for public, open and secure Internet of Things (IoT) service delivery infrastructure (from cloud to network edge) Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL), ARM? and Oracle? provide a new portfolio of market segment solutions for next-generation IoT service providers and edge node developers to respond to market demands.

Freescale has partnered with ARM and Oracle to create a secure service platform that standardizes and consolidates IoT service delivery and management across multiple vertical markets. Freescale's integrated platform combines end-to-end software with a converged layered intelligent gateway to provide a common, open framework for secure delivery and management of IoT services. The platform debuted at the 2013 San Francisco JavaOne conference and was demonstrated to support home automation and smart energy applications.

At the ARM TechCon 2013 conference held recently, Freescale announced the addition of support for the smart grid and telemedicine IoT services market on this all-in-one platform. The integrated telehealth service is suitable for clinical and home deployments and has many other benefits designed to help IoT service providers meet the Continua® Health Alliance certification requirements.

Geoff Lees, senior vice president and general manager of the microcontroller division at Freescale, said: "IoT is designed to support and accelerate innovative new services. We encourage small businesses to grow and innovate from both service provisioning and edge nodes. Freescale, ARM and Oracle collaborate to deliver comprehensive, complementary technologies that work together seamlessly and as a fundamental building block for securely delivering IoT service infrastructure."

A "box" (Intelligent Services Gateway) based on Freescale's integrated platform enables the integration of boxes from multiple IoT service providers in a single unified device. Based on Freescale Kinetis microcontrollers, i.MX application processors or QorIQ communication processors, the all-in-one platform runs Oracle's JavaTM software and integrates ARM's Sensinode software, based on 6LoWPAN, CoAP and OMA Lightweight M2M Standard technology to securely connect a large number of low-power edge node devices. The multiple technologies of Freescale, ARM, and Oracle work together to provide a secure end-to-end IoT gateway platform that accelerates and simplifies the deployment of many innovative IoT services.

John Cornish, ARM's Executive Vice President and General Manager, Systems Design Group, said: "This integrated platform is an impressive example of how ARM and its partners have made the Internet of Things a reality. We are pleased to work with Freescale and Oracle. IoT becomes a reality. The all-in-one platform provides designers with an open standard that enables them to begin the IoT revolution and create exciting new generations of energy-efficient, smart technologies."

Nandini Ramani, Oracle's vice president of Java platform development, said: "IoT is an exciting opportunity only when we create an open, cross-industry platform to help customers accelerate time to market, manage costs and securely deliver new features to embedded devices. To be fully realistic. We are pleased to work with Freescale and ARM to address this challenge, and we have partnered with both partners to provide a standards-based security services platform created on Java and mbed? The market is able to fully and quickly take advantage of all the benefits of new business opportunities offered by IoT."