How Huge is Huge? - M2M Evolution

4/24/2013

Featured Articles » New Initiatives to Advance M2M Communications and the Internet of Things Coming from TIA » SmartGPS Enters the Market Thanks to Magellan » M2M Outfit RACO Forges Ties with Rogers Communications » KORE M2M Starter Kit Offers Access to More than 500 Global Carriers   Sponsored By: M2M Evolution Conference & Expo - August 26-29, 2013 Mandalay Bay – Las Vegas, NV M2M Evolution highlights how M2M technologies, the Internet of Things and the wireless network combine to significantly improve business processes, minimize risk, and drive revenue. Join us in Las Vegas for this two track program focused on providing you with information on how M2M solves business problems across multiple industries and in nearly all business functional areas. Conference sessions will focus on the retail and energy verticals as well as applications in big data, security and logistic functions (including transportation, fleet management and demand response). Members of the M2M ecosystem, including wireless carriers, application providers, platform companies, and device manufacturers will discuss their roles in creating effective technologies and procedures that work to create an ecosystem for actionable data, information and efficiencies.   Top Stories » Culinary Ventures Vending to Install 3,000 Crane Telemetry Units » Alpha Micro Components Announces New Embedded Wireless Device Server » Report Shows a Major Decline in Personal Navigation Devices in 2012 » Craig Montgomery Becomes SVP of Marketing at ORBCOMM   From The Expert Corner April 24, 2013 How Huge is Huge? By Carl Ford Partner, Crossfire Media Our friend James Brehm, when sizing the market, uses the phrase “huge and getting bigger (huge -r?).” It’s easy to see why the numbers are so hard to correlate; everybody’s definition of M2M is different. Everyone defines things differently. Some include e-readers but don’t count e-reader software on smartphones. Some count M2M as enterprise-driven and “Internet of Things” as consumer-driven, while others use the exact same terms and say that M2M is wireless-connected and Internet of Things either also includes any network or just LAN/WAN-based solutions. Then it gets worse with vertical definitions; are fleet solutions just GPS or do they require optimization? Does Telehealth include or exclude video conferencing? And if it excludes that, then why is video surveillance different? Read More...    Featured Videos MashingUp M2M Solutions.    Featured Resources » When Machines Talk to Machines: M2M deployment can make your business systems smarter » M2M for Industrial Remote Asset Monitoring » Vodafone M2M Integrated Terminals Solution   Featured Communities » M2M Evolution » Embedded M2M Solutions » Machine to Machine Solutions   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    Interested in reaching M2M Evolution's Global M2M Communications and Technology Audience of 80,000 Unique Visitors? Please contact Matthew Gleeson to learn how at mgleeson@tmcnet.com or 1 (203) 852-6800 x145.   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a M2M Evolution columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of M2M technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the M2M Evolution Web site and this newsletter. Contact Erik Linask, group editorial director, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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