Looking at the recent comments from Sprint CEO Dan Hesse – indicates that M2M has moved beyond the niche segment. Sprint has had a major effort ongoing for some time now based on all the M2M centric press releases.
Here is the latest one that targets smart transportation or known in the past as AVL ( Automate Vehicle Location) + new capabilities.
Read more here Connected Transportation helps companies better manage logistics to optimize, schedule, monitor and track deliveries, personnel and vehicles. This enables drivers to waste less fuel looking for delivery destinations, gas stations and other locales, while reducing emissions and carbon footprints, decreasing costs and creating enhanced personnel comfort and organizational efficiencies. At the same time, Connected Transportation technology is helping first-time and professional drivers learn safer driving habits. In describing Sprint’s innovative role in this rapidly expanding market, Hesse made note of three new significant partnerships using Sprint’s networks and M2M technology:
Monitoring, Electronic Payments and Digital Information for EV Charging Stations
Sprint is also working with ECOtality, a recognized leader in advanced transportation, energy systems and alternative fuels, to provide comprehensive wireless connectivity to more than 15,000 residential and commercial electric vehicle (EV) charging stations throughout ECOtality’s nationwide Blink™ Network.
More at – http://www.sprint.com/m2m
Posted on 19th January 2011
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When machines talk, smart companies listen. M2M, or machine-to-machine communication, is fast becoming a market-changing force for a wide spectrum of entrepreneurial businesses. Since launching its Emerging Solutions Group in October 2009, Sprint (NYSE: S) has worked with solutions partners to help a growing number of businesses serve customers – and in some cases outflank their competitors – with M2M innovation.
M2M is about connecting people, devices and systems in new and transforming ways.
With M2M, devices “talk” to each other over wired or wireless connections and share data without direct human intervention. In this way, devices as diverse as utility meters, signboards, cameras, remote sensors, laptops, appliances and other consumer devices can be connected to support a variety new uses and achieve increased efficiencies.
“M2M is shattering conventional notions about what a business can deliver for its customers,” said Danny Bowman, president-Sprint Integrated Solutions Group. “Business opportunities that were once technically infeasible or too capital-intensive are now both doable and profitable in a short period of time. Sprint’s early entry as a provider of comprehensive M2M solutions is already producing results for businesses and their customers, including ingenious applications that make life safer, more productive and more entertaining.”
Posted on 22nd June 2010
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Here is another company that is on the M2M middleware bandwagon. I have not tried out the beta service but worth looking into.
Cooper City, FL (PRWEB) April 13, 2009 — Linxter, Inc., provider of in-the-cloud middleware, today announces the release of Linxter version 1.0 for the rapid development of communication-based products and services. Linxter offers software developers an easy-to-use, ubiquitous communication framework for secure and reliable messaging among applications, devices, and systems, allowing data to be exchanged among disparate systems.
With message-oriented middleware hosted in the cloud, developers can quickly and easily take advantage of asynchronous, stateful messaging to connect their distributed applications. All of the communication plumbing, the infrastructure and coding complexities, are removed from the product development timeline and maintenance budget. As a result, developers do not have to invest themselves in messaging expertise and infrastructure, allowing them to focus instead on the core value proposition of their products and services.
Linxter reduces the time to market for applications by automating integration. Developers can integrate Linxter into their development projects in less than five minutes and master the technology in less than a day. The technology consists of three main components: 1. The Linxter Internet Service Bus (ISB), which is the back-end infrastructure that processes messages between Linxter enabled programs, 2. The Linxter Software Development Kit (SDK), which contains the code needed to integrate applications with the Linxter ISB, and 3. The Linxter Web Manager, a user interface for administering programs and accounts.
Posted on 13th April 2009
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Gothenburg, Sweden – September 29, 2008: According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, 50 million people in the EU and the US could potentially benefit from wireless home healthcare monitoring solutions. However there are still very few commercial products that enable distance monitoring of medical equipment such as glucose level meters or blood pressure monitors via mobile networks. The report identifies fundamentally different approaches to technology as one of the key explanations for why the healthcare and mobile industries have not yet found a good match. “There is a wide gap between the technology used in the healthcare sector and the latest advances in telecom. The few telehealth solutions that do exist are not just one but often several generations behind in terms of technology”, said Tobias Ryberg, senior analyst, Berg Insight.
In order to pave the way for wireless solutions in healthcare, Berg Insight advices the mobile industry to explain that they fulfil all requirements on safety, data security and reliability in the healthcare sector while at the same time delivering better performance at lower cost compared to legacy systems. Mobile industry players must reach out to medical device manufacturers and caregivers to present solutions that allow them to take full advantage of the latest communication technology. “The healthcare industry is perfectly right to have a cautious attitude towards new innovations before they are thoroughly tested. The first step towards a wireless revolution in home medical care needs to be to build confidence that the mobile network infrastructure is capable of even the most critical tasks”, concluded Ryberg.
Posted on 30th September 2008
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iWOW Connections recently announced the introduction of iWOW M2M Open Protocol (iMOP), an event-driven software engine that offers developers a simple way to automate the communication of data in machine-To-machine (M2M) applications. Embedded atop iWOW’s TR-800 GSM/GPRS modules, iMOP is designed to suit the requirements for applications such as remote monitoring, fleet management and asset tracking.
iMOP aims to replace programming efforts to trigger data sending with user-friendly configurations for wireless reporting, controlling and monitoring. This software stack eliminates the need for an external microcontroller to control data transmission; instead it relies on AT commands to invoke a basic response during predefined events. Profiles of these events and actions can be defined and edited over-the-air through SMS, TCP/IP, GPRS and CSD or directly via the serial port.
iMOP can be configured to send periodic reports, providing realtime information and enabling enterprise managers to make decisions that reduce risks and improve their business processes. An alert in the form of SMS or data packet (via TCP socket or CSD) is sent when a user-defined event occurs. iMOP also enables remote control by executing commands and queries from authenticated incoming SMS and TCP messages.
Posted on 18th April 2008
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