Citing the benefits of increased sales and growing market acceptance, Wade Patterson, Synapse Wireless CEO, said, “The real news is how our kits make the prototyping of customer’s applications fast and easy, and how SNAP can accelerate the most demanding development schedules. Now, with economies of scale, we can offer our kits at extraordinary prices.”

The M2M industry is projected to grow exponentially in the coming years, from approximately $16 billion in 2008 to more than $57 billion by 2014, according to Strategy Analytics. Apprize will help accelerate this growth by offering a limitless M2M software solution that can be implemented across a variety of industries such as telemedicine, energy management, environmental, security and more.

“It takes between four and six supply-chain partners to develop and manage just one M2M solution,” said Vice President of Yankee Group’s Enterprise and SMB Research, Steve Hilton. “Having these multiple partners is not only costly, but also time-consuming. Enterprises that consolidate this process significantly with cloud-based solutions will save time and money by reducing development and deployment for partners on the back-end.”

HealthPAL automatically collects data from compatible, off-the-shelf, medical monitors using a smart cable or wirelessly via Bluetooth. The data is then transmitted using embedded M2M (GSM) cellular chip (and soon CDMA) technology to be received by HealthCOM, MedApps’ full-featured, web-based portal for health care providers.

About the size of a cell-phone, the HealthPAL is ultra-portable for maximum mobility and its low cost enables remote monitoring to be available to large patient populations. It is considered to be the ultimate in simplicty. While it has buttons for special features and set-up, during daily operation the reading and data transmissions are COMPLETELY automated. The patient does not push any buttons, navigate any screen commands or touch the HealthPAL in any fashion.

HealthPAL is currently approved for use in conjunction with glucose meters, blood pressure monitors, weight scales, pulse oximeters and pedometers. As additional approvals are received, MedApps looks forward to expanding its capabilities to include the recording and transmitting of data from INR monitors, ECG, Peak Flow, CPAP, spirometers, O2 concentrators and more.

Rob Conway, chairman of the GSM Association, challenged technology manufacturers in February to integrate in some capacity mobile broadband in to all their products by 2014.

He was addressing the Mobile World Congress, and referring to products such as cameras, printers, memory cards, printers and vehicles, among a multitude of other items. The opportunity, he said, is to embed SIM cards in 750 million new devices.

“We have only just begun the mobile broadband journey,” said Conway. “The embedded mobile broadband market can grow as chip prices go down and new usages are developed.”

Machine to machine communications, or M2M as it is known, is in its simplest form the integration of mobile SIM cards and a data modems in products to read and relay information via GPRS.

It is already a significant market; and represents the first roots of Conway’s vision.

The best-known example of M2M communication in the consumer space is probably the deployment of Vodafone SIM cards in TomTom’s satellite navigation systems, enabling transfer of up-to-date traffic information and relevant local information to users.

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.

even more exciting than the explosion in the number of Internet enabled devices, is the way developers will be able to innovate through the interconnection of all of these things.

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.

Specifically, Seidenberg said Verizon Wireless’ choice of all-IP Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in the 700 MHz band will enable a connected world that not only connects people but people to machines and machines to machines.

“In this model, there is literally no limit on the number of connections that can be part of the mobile grid: cars, appliances, buildings, roads, sensors, medical monitors and someday even inventories on supermarket shelves,” Seidenberg said. “All of these have the potential to become inherently intelligent — perpetually connected nodes on the mobile web.”

April 2, 2009 (Computerworld) LAS VEGAS — AT&T Inc. is working with developers to wirelessly enable a plethora of consumer electronics, representatives said at the International CTIA Wireless show today.

The trend of creating connected consumer electronics has been going on for some time, but AT&T is rethinking how it will charge for the wireless service behind such devices, especially if customers used multiple wireless devices, AT&T representatives said.

Glenn Lurie, president of emerging devices for AT&T, said most customers would not want to spend $10 a month for wireless simply to send a photo from a digital camera to a digital picture frame. But a customer might be willing to pay for a one-time use, or even several uses, he said.

With connectivity pricing recognized as the key to success, and the strong interest by device makers to add wireless capability, AT&T Mobility president Ralph de la Vega sees a bright future. He said consumers would walk into a Best Buy or Wal-Mart store sometime in the future “and there won’t be a device in the store that will not be wirelessly enabled,” de la Vega said.

He said cameras, e-readers and personal navigation devices are already able to connect today, but added data features are possible. Nearly always-on connectivity was closer to reality if devices were made to work across Wi-Fi and 3G cellular networks.

De la Vega said that smaller companies might not be able to add a 3G wireless network radio chip to a camera, but could afford to add a Wi-Fi radio chip instead.

Lurie said his emerging devices group is working with small developers on radio-enabling various devices. “Some are even coming out of the garage with duct tape on the device,” he said.

ABI Research analyst Kevin Burden said that the market for connected electronics will be “huge,” adding that ABI is assessing its size in current research. Lurie gave one estimate of $90 billion in five years.

Burden said that a few years ago, wireless devices were focused on converging mobile phones with computers, while the new trend is making many devices Internet-connected. “You really can’t have one device do everything,” Burden said.