BlackBerry and Amazon crew up on car records and application ...

(Reuters) - Canadian technology professional BlackBerry and e-commerce titan Amazon have developed a cloud-primarily based utility platform designed to aid automakers and suppliers standardize vehicle records and pace deployment of recent revenue-generating points and features, the corporations pointed out on Tuesday.

FILE photo: A Karma Revero hybrid electric powered activities vehicle with Blackberry technology on monitor at the 2019 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January eight, 2019. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File image

BlackBerry and Amazon net capabilities (AWS) pointed out the brand new intelligent car records platform, known as IVY, will compress the time to construct, set up and monetize in-vehicle functions and linked services across multiple brands and fashions, making it easier for automakers to collaborate with a much broader pool of developers to ac celerate construction of apps and functions.

Carmakers had been reluctant so far to share with outdoor expertise suppliers lots of the statistics generated by way of their vehicles.

IVY is designed to enrich and run concurrently with new digital vehicle architectures developed with the aid of Volkswagen, common Motors and others.

The platform is constructed on BlackBerry's QNX, a automobile operating device in 175 million automobiles global, in line with John Wall, head of BlackBerry expertise options.

"The largest challenge that most carmakers have in getting functions within the vehicle or monetizing their information is that there is not any standardized technique to access the statistics," Wall advised Reuters.

One goal of BlackBerry and AWS is to set up IVY as a standard platform across the auto business, as Apple and Google have completed in cell phones through their iOS and Android structures.

with out that standardization, Wall spoke of, automakers "can't basically set up an ecosystem" or leverage the broader group of app builders.

IVY is anticipated to be put in on the primary construction automobiles in mannequin 12 months 2023, mentioned AWS executive Sarah Cooper.

BlackBerry and Amazon declined to claim which corporations might be the first to use IVY.

Reporting by using Paul Lienert in Detroit; modifying by way of David Goodman