M2M : Machine 2 Machine

CONNECTED VEHICLE TRADE ASSOCIATION

The Connected Vehicle Trade Association (CVTA) is a non-profit business league established to facilitate the interaction, and advance the interests, of the entities involved in the vehicle communication environment. The Connected Vehicle Trade Association enables the collaboration of companies, organizations, and governmental bodies engaged in developing bidirectional vehicle communications. Membership is open to any corporation (except automakers), public entities, standards and specification organizations, educational institutions and qualified individuals.
Communication

Our first effort is to understand who the stakeholders are, their objectives and ownership in this environment, and engage them to allow for a collective understanding of the environment. We communicate what the initiatives are, and what has been developed to date with regard to technical, social and policy concerns. From there, we explore the areas of opportunity, how to participate, and help communicate member capabilities to the correct parties.
Collaboration

We seek to build a dialog for examination of the proposals, pre-deployment plans and build outs within the affected business sectors, between businesses and public entities, and for international efforts.
Consensus

In order to assure an effective means of accomplishing the important objectives, we must build consensus by those who will build, validate and operate the systems and infrastructures developed.

- M2M for Auto Safety

For many years automakers have focussed on improving crash worthiness to make automobiles safer.Traditional methods are pretty much perfected – now the industry needs to look to telematics and new hi-tech solutions to change the way we drive and safe lives.

Safe cars sell. Make sure you get the information, and meet the contacts you need to carve your place in the future of this vital industry.

This expo woudl be a good place to look for new M2M application in steamlining Field service operations and sounding out new customers>>

f creating new revenue opportunities, retaining your customers and staying ahead of the competition are key objectives driving your field service operations, then Field Service 2006 is the one event for you.

Now is the time to leverage your service strategy to propel your organization into the future. Building on the momentum of the last three years, 2006 conference sessions will focus on driving organizational change (with a dedicated pre-day summit), reducing costs, maximizing service revenue, leveraging emerging technologies and exceeding customer expectations.

We’ve revamped the 2006 program and will feature expert speakers from a variety of vertical markets and forward-looking SMBs, in addition to thought leaders from some of the biggest service organizations in North America. This means that you’ll learn directly from an impressive roster of 45 expert presenters.

M2M, Automation, Telemetry, Remote Monitoring, LBS

This machine-to-machine (M2M) industrial terminal handles all the communication protocols necessary to transfer information on a TCP/IP network and includes an FTP client, an email client and a web server. The server is entirely customisable and the software development kit (SDK) that is supplied with the eDindus allows scripts to be created and embedded in an interpreted language.

A 16-bit ATMega microprocessor manages the modbus protocol and also allows specific client modules coded in C to be embedded in the terminal. eDindus can be connected to any equipment through a wide range of hardware interfaces (RS232, RS422, RS485, analogue and digital input / output and dry switch).

M2M, Automation, Telemetry, Remote Monitoring, LBS

Linking machines together in networks that enable them to talk to each other while only occasionally communicating with humans is becoming common and is called M2M, for machine-to-machine networking. Intelligent fasteners fit squarely into this world, said Steve Pazol, president of nPhase, a Chicago-based M2M software company.

“This isn’t so different from RFID technology, where you use radio signals from tags on products to keep track of their movement,” Pazol said. “I can see a lot of possible applications for smart fasteners.”

By equipping intelligent fasteners with sensors that detect temperature, stress and other environmental attributes, inanimate objects will obtain the sort of self-awareness that is common in nature, said Bernard Perrine, chief executive of Telezygology Inc.

Rudduck and his colleagues moved their company from Sydney to Chicago because Australia is far off the beaten path for the global fastener industry. They licensed their designs to Textron Fastening Systems Inc., a Troy, Mich., firm that is a leader in fastener technology.

Textron has launched some products aimed at the airline industry and has others intended for the auto industry.

The mechanism that holds auto airbags in place is a natural for intelligent fasteners, said Steve Brown, product development director at Textron.

M2M, Automation, Telemetry, Remote Monitoring, LBS