Jumpstarting the Internet of Things Ubiquitous Corporation IP

Our daily devices are getting “smarter” by the year, as even household appliances are getting online capabilities. But who can wait for an Internet-enabled refrigerator – or car, for that matter – to take its time getting started? Ubiquitous Corporation. has developed a solution with QuickBoot, which drastically cuts restart times for a variety of devices.

As Shinichi Manaka, Managing Director of R&D at Ubiquitous explains, the patented QuickBoot relies on an innovative startup method for starting up. QuickBoot can determine the best way to restore a device’s system memory each time, whether that means calling up a memory image that was saved prior to shutdown or building one on startup. As the system starts up, QuickBoot prioritizes memory blocks and restores them as they are needed.

The result is extremely fast startup times, regardless of the size of the device’s memory. “When you turn on your system, it usually takes 40 to 50 seconds,” says the company’s managing director Shinichi Manaka. “Our technology cuts the booting to half that time.”

In addition to being able to run on any type of CPU architecture or operating system, QuickBoot minimizes power consumption for better eco-friendly performance. “Normal hibernation modes put your devices to sleep,” he explains. “The CPU may not be working but it is using battery power and has to conserve it. However, our technology stores the memory image to a different part of the system and shuts down the power completely. So it doesn’t use the CPU or consume any battery power.”

Future plans for the company include overseas expansion, in particular to the US market. In September 2015, the firm established an office in Silicon Valley, and Manaka says he has already started building relationships with companies there. Off to a good start, the Ubiquitous team debuted QuickBoot at a private event for one of Silicon Valley’s leading semiconductor manufacturers in November 2015, where it was met with strong interest.

QuickBoot is just one part of Ubiquitous’s product offerings, and fits into a broad range of services and strengths, ranging from eco-friendly power management and cloud services to embedded systems (IoT) programming. The firm’s long-term goal is to create a total solution that can help deliver smart energy, smart homes, and smart cars, ultimately enabling “a smart society.” Given the background of Ubiquitous’s management – Manaka and President Masahiro Sano are former engineers at Microsoft, and Satoshi Hasegawa, managing director of the company’s Business Unit, has a strong background in energy management and home control – they are uniquely poised for success in this field.