Let me lead by saying that I hope you will join us and Aeris Communications on May 28 for a connectivity webinar, “Introduction to M2M Technologies: What Wireless or Wired Option is Right for Your Company and Products.” The webinar will offer such questions for discussion as:
- What is the best option for your program today, five years and 10 years from now?
- What are the pros and cons of wired, Wi-Fi, cellular and satellite?
- How do choices change as a result of different M2M and IoT applications?
- What is the total cost of ownership?
When we first started talking about M2M, a great deal of the connectivity was local, with not a great deal of back-end intelligence sharing. Today, though, we talk about the Internet of Things, but the point that gets lost with the phrase is that it is about the connectivity more than the things.
Don’t get me wrong, things are cool, but the special sauce comes from those things being part of the whole. At the May 28 webinar, Syed Zaeem Hosain, the CTO of Aeris, will talk from experience of the cases Aeris has supported for a number of vertical markets, such as automotive, healthcare/medical, point of sale, digital signage, fleet and utility industries. The benefit of having an industry veteran such as Hosain speak is that he has a grasp of not only where we have been but where we are going, as well.
For many in our community today, the choices are structured pretty much by what they have to offer. A gateway company wants to highlight its ability to support aggregation and usually Wi-Fi, and a carrier wants to highlight the mobility. The reality of is that we have a very brown field of existing solutions in the marketplace, most of which would not consider themselves IoT/M2M or anything else having to do with connectivity...Read More
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