Is Your Phone the Platform for M2M? - M2M Evolution

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11/09/2011

Featured Articles » Assured Global Transportation » Wyless and Maingate Collaborate » Shorter Times to Market » M2M Players Form Open Source Working Group   Sponsor: M2M Evolution Conference The M2M Evolution Conference will focus on the "value proposition" phase of M2M and how real life M2M technologies and applications are helping businesses fuel growth and productivity. This event will explore the role of the network platform and will define how the "cloud" plays a role in delivering M2M solutions. M2M Evolution will also explore the increasing variety of M2M enabled devices. This event is for all vertical industries but will have a particular emphasis on medical applications, including; remote monitoring and diagnostics, patient tracking, claims processing and more. Sessions include a series of analyst insight, real life case studies, and roundtable discussions designed to demonstrate how to exploit these new technologies. .   Top Stories » Bowman: Sprint Ranked Second in Analysys Mason 2011 Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Scorecard » Vizada Partners With SkyWave to Launch IsatData Pro » Container Security and Tracking Revenues to Touch $690 Million by 2016: ABI Research » Machine-to-Machine Communication Nodes Shipment to Reach 73 Million by 2020: Pike Research   From The Expert Corner November 09, 2011 Is Your Phone the Platform for M2M? By Carl Ford Partner, Crossfire Media I enjoyed the Sprint (News - Alert) Open Solutions Conference very much last week and had several interviews with companies that will appear on the M2M Evolution site in the near future. As always, when I get talk to many people in the industry, I get to hear the trends, the group think and the opportunities. Here are my thoughts for what they are worth. First of all, Silicon Valley is definitely going to have a great impact on M2M. The Plug and Play Tech Center struck me as typical of the value of being at the Silicon Valley. We may be past the age when Steve Jobs (News - Alert) and Steve Wozniak can hang out in neighborhood garages, but the community spirit is there. The apps community sees M2M as just another application with a few extra items to control. This means that a lot of the group - think about how HTML5 and device specific OSs are embedded in the conversations- however, most of the time the issues about this just gets pushed as “the cloud”. My friends at Google (News - Alert) remind me that the Cloud is the Internet and what the cloud folks talk about are their aggregation servers on the Internet which is “their platform... Read More    Featured Videos Interview with nPhase Advanced M2M    Featured Resources » Improve Your multichannel agility: seven Best practices You need to Know » High Performance Wireless Backhaul for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)   Featured Channels » Embedded M2M Solutions » M2M Evolution » 4G Wireless Evolution   Visit www.m2mevolution.com for the Latest Machine to Machine News & Info   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit M2M Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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