“We have a lot of partners in India with whom we can collaborate and co-innovate. Qualcomm is present here and we also work with Bosch and KPIT Technologies, which are present here in multiple locations who build embedded applications on QNX for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs),” said Raj Jain, vice president and head of the Hyderabad centre.
The company will also work directly with OEMs and auto parts firms such as Mercedes and Aptiv who have their research and development (R&D) arms in India, Jain added.
The cybersecurity arm already has a presence in India with offices in Gurgaon and Bengaluru. It services enterprise clients like banks, financial services and governments.
The company estimates the number of IoT devices in 2025 to go up to 30.9 billion from 13.8 billion in 2021. It will hire around 100 engineers in India by the end of current calendar year for roles across cloud, embedded systems and product engineering.
The IoT arm clocked 23% revenue growth in the first half of 2022. Around 70% of its business hails from automobiles while rest is from other industries such as medical devices, robotics and heavy engineering.
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