Broad-based R&D encompassing network security, data management, and fast boot-up

「During the current consolidated fiscal year, to accelerate new adoption of its core Ubiquitous QuickBoot product in global markets, the Company adapted it for the latest SoCs for smart devices and supported new applications. It also achieved a viable implementation of post-quantum cryptography for 32-bit Arm Cortex-M-based microcontrollers, enabling deployment in low-cost IoT products, in preparation for the practical use of quantum computers. For compliance with standardization efforts, the Company completed implementation and verification of FIPS 203, FIPS 204 and FIPS 205 standardized by NIST (the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology), and also completed implementation and verification based on provisional specifications for FALCON and HQC, which are still being standardized. To meet growing demand for security verification services and improve price competitiveness, the Company conducted technology development for fuzzing tools. It also developed GSIL, a PC-based simulator for in-vehicle ECU software development that enables simulation-based software development for the era of software-defined vehicles (SDVs).」

「Research and development expenditure for the current interim consolidated fiscal period was ¥24.893 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the period.」

「During the current consolidated fiscal year, in the connectivity and security field, the Company developed derivative products of Ubiquitous RTOS IoT Enabler, released in 2022 as a comprehensive software package designed to streamline and simplify embedded-system development, and began selling them. It also developed a bridge function connecting Matter, the global common standard for smart homes, with ECHONET Lite, which is already gaining widespread adoption in Japan, and incorporated the function into Ubiquitous ECHONET Lite SDK, the Company's software development kit supporting ECHONET Lite for embedded environments.」

「Research and development expenditure for the current interim consolidated fiscal period was ¥20.999 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the period.」

「During the current consolidated fiscal year, in the connectivity and security field, the Company developed derivative products of Ubiquitous RTOS IoT Enabler, released in 2022 as a comprehensive software package designed to streamline and simplify embedded-system development, and began selling them.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative third quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥28.252 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the period.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative second quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥19.803 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the period.」

「The Company announced that it had begun providing Ubiquitous RTOS IoT Enabler for DBMS, an all-in-one package that adds data-management functions for efficiently managing the wide variety and large volumes of data handled by IoT devices to Ubiquitous RTOS IoT Enabler, a product package created by testing the operation of middleware such as the real-time operating system, network stack and applications comprising an embedded system.」

「During the current consolidated fiscal year, in the connectivity and security field, the Company developed and began selling Ubiquitous RTOS IoT Enabler, a comprehensive software package designed to streamline and simplify embedded-system development by eliminating the need to port and develop operating systems, networks, security and other components. It also developed Ubiquitous QUIC, which supports the next-generation QUIC transport protocol for IoT devices, and began selling the product.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative third quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥29.600 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the period.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative first quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥15.158 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the period.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative third quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥38.161 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Company's research and development activities during the period.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative second quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥25.619 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the period.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative first quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥7.469 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the period.」

「In December 2020, the company announced the joint development with PTCジャパン株式会社 of software that supports the client functions of the IIoT (IoT for industrial applications) platform ThingWorx® and can run on an MCU. The software would be launched on 1 February 2021 as the "Ubiquitous Network Framework ThingWorx Edge Package."」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative second quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥35.287 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Company's research and development activities during the period.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative first quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥13.936 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the period.」

「Assuming that cloud services would support TLS1.3 in the near future, the Company made Ubiquitous NetworkFramework compatible with TLS1.3 and also made it compatible with AVS Integration for AWS IoT. It also conducted research into other advanced security technologies.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative third quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥21.752 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Company's research and development activities during the period.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative second quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥15.486 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Company's research and development activities during the period.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative first quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥6.005 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the period.」

「During the current consolidated fiscal year, the Company made Ubiquitous NetworkFramework compatible with Type-1, the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth integrated solution for the IoT market developed by Murata Manufacturing Co.,Ltd.; developed additional technologies for Ubiquitous Securus, a solution for strictly managing confidential data to enable secure IoT devices; developed Ubiquitous TPM Secure Boot, software that uses a TPM to detect unauthorized tampering with files comprising a system; and conducted research into other advanced security technologies. As a result, total R&D expenditure for the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥43.418 million.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative third quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥37.223 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Company's research and development activities during the period.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative second quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥27.353 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Company's research and development activities during the period.」

「During the current consolidated fiscal year, the Company developed additional technologies for Ubiquitous Securus, a solution for strictly managing confidential data to enable secure IoT devices; developed Ubiquitous TPM Secure Boot, software that uses a TPM to detect unauthorized tampering with files comprising a system; and conducted research into other advanced security technologies. As a result, total R&D expenditure for the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥43.341 million.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative second quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥22.760 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Company's research and development activities during the period.」

「USIC was closed in February 2017 because it had achieved a certain level of results in information gathering and, in light of the performance of the Group, to reduce some R&D expenses that were not directly linked to short- to medium-term earnings contributions.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative third quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥79.170 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Company's research and development activities during the period.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative second quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥57.065 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Company's research and development activities during the period.」

「Research and development expenditure for the cumulative first quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year was ¥31.858 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Company's research and development activities during the period.」

「In the process of individual devices becoming interconnected, technologies on the server and Internet side, such as the services linking those devices, are also required. Accordingly, the company conducts broad-ranging research and development into software that creates value as a whole in a ubiquitous network society.」