Register now or log in to join your professional community.
When it comes to judging technology, do the experts always get it right? Remember when it was thought that PCs were too expensive to become popular, that there would never be enough demand for e-commerce and that apps were just for consumers? In this article, we look at what the future holds for machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies. What is current adoption like? And what are the perceived barriers?
M2M uses a range of technologies to create intelligent assets. First, sensors and other electronic devices are attached to a remote machine. Depending on the machine’s particular function, they capture relevant data, such as temperature or speed. This is transmitted wirelessly from a SIM integrated in the device to a central server, where it is translated into meaningful information. In response, messages can then be sent the other way to change the way the machine is behaving. For example: the machine is running too fast; slow it down.
