Sensors alert: "Cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communications" coming your way
- IT TOPICS:Mobile
Here's more evidence that in the not-so-distant future there will be sensors everywhere -- monitoring and reporting back on the status of far-flung equipment and assets. ABI Research has a new report saying wireless carriers such as Cingular, Sprint, Verizon and Orange are increasingly interested in offering "cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communications." It turns virtually any object into a networked object, via mobile telephony.
M2M involves the use of cellular communications to connect remote sensing and monitoring devices to central networks wirelessly. It is often used for industrial process monitoring, usage metering and security applications.
In essence, this would give the cellular carriers more enterprise data traffic to go along with their voice traffic -- and with less churn.
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