For many companies, wireless has been the domain of the purchasing department. When wireless only meant voice, this made sense. Devices were relatively the same in terms of functionality, and the offering from the carriers was also similar, with features like pooling, device to device calling and simplified billing often being more important than the […]
September 2012
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M2M and its importance to the future of wireless
When I first started in the cellular industry in the later part of the 1990s, Machine to Machine accounted for an extremely small part of the overall activations at the carriers and an even smaller portion of the overall traffic. It was deemed to be “extremely niche” by most industry experts and it was often […]
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M2M in Everyday Life
When I first started focusing on the M2M field many years ago, I found it very difficult to explain to people what I actually did. When I explained how we facilitated communication from remote assets, it brought on different reactions. For some, they found it way too difficult to understand, while others must have watched […]
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M2M enhances the "Green" in green energy
One of the biggest macro-economic trends out there is the move towards moving from the use of non-renewable sources of energy (namely fossil fuels) to cleaner sources of energy (ranging from wind to solar to hydro-electric and even nuclear). Besides the obvious reasons (namely that the use of carbon-based fuels can have an impact on […]
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The gradual elimination of landlines in business: Have you cut the wire yet?
As a child, it was impossible to live without “the wire”, whether this wire was to provide a feed into your television or to allow you a connection to the outside world via your phone. There was no Internet for consumer use at this stage….yes, I do feel old. As we progressed into the Internet […]