BlackBerry opens IoT centre of excellence in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: The BlackBerry Internet of Things (IoT) Centre of Excellence (CoE) was officially opened by BlackBerry Limited in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

Briefing the media, Mattias Eriksson, president of BlackBerry IoT, said that the 30,000 sq ft facility is the company’s first major research and development (R&D) centre outside of North America.

According to Eriksson, Hyderabad was chosen because of its “talent, policies of the state government and the city itself”. The centre is designed to advance mission-critical embedded software development for IoT industries. The CoE currently has a strength of 60 members, spanning a wide range of positions such as senior management, technical project management, product engineering, cloud software development, integration and service delivery.