Machine to Machine
15 May 2008
Ochre's presentation at the CommsDay Summit 16 April 2008.
The Comms Day Summit was recently held on 12th and 13th April in Sydney. Brett O'Riley gave a presentation "Machine to Machine" (M2M) applications as a capacity and infrastructure demand driver to an interested audience.
A portion of an article from the April edition of the Business Week reveals:
For years, tech visionaries have spun dreams of a world of connected, communicating machines -- what they call the Internet of Things. Some gurus predict that within a few years, there could be more gizmos chattering away over the Net than there are people. New wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi and ZigBee that can link computers, consumer electronics, vehicles, and millions of other devices are vastly speeding the process. "This is going to be very big," says Ian Barkin, managing director of researcher FocalPoint Group in San Francisco. By 2008, he figures, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication could drive a $180 billion annual business in hardware, software, and broadband capacity services, up from about $34 billion today. These talkative devices need an on-ramp to the Internet to share their information. And that's where mobile-phone companies see opportunity.
Equipment makers such as Nokia Corp. (NOK ) and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications are churning out tiny cellular radios that cost as little as $30 -- half the price of a few years ago -- that can be built into everything from cars to home heart monitors. Once fitted, the devices could send status reports or cries for help. Large mobile operators such as Sprint PCS Group (PCS ) and Singapore Telecommunications (SGTSY ) are waking up to the market. FocalPoint thinks carriers could score $2.5 billion in revenues this year and $10 billion in 2008 from transmitting M2M data.
Machine to Machine Presentation
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