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Connected World magazine

INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the m2mpremier.com Education section. In this section, you can access to the complete back-issue library to Connected World magazine (formerly M2M magazine). Every article is sorted by issue, article type, subject, and department. To begin, please use the right column to select articles by issue, or browse the full back-issue library by article type.
 ARTICLES BY ISSUES
 
June/July 2013
Cover Story:
Big Data in a Changing World
Cover Story:
Getting Your NFC On
Wearable, pairable, and on the runway to success, it may be time to dress up using NFC.
Cover Story:
Can Connected be the Strategy?
Cover Story:
Gaming the Technology Sale
Cover Story:
Vodafone Helps Alarm.com Feel Secure About Global Expansion
Cover Story:
M2M, How Do I Love Thee?
Cover Story:
Israeli Culture Drives Strong Leadership in M2M
Telit Wireless becomes industrial powerhouse with 20% SOM and still growing.
Apr/May 2013
Cover Story:
Bringing Tablets to the Table
How restaurants are redefining the dining experience by giving diners a taste of tablets .
Cover Story:
The Spy in Your Pocket
Cover Story:
A Different Kind of Tipping Point
Cover Story:
The Newest Channel—Are You Tuned In?
Cover Story:
Editor’s Note
Cover Story:
The Disrupting Force
RACO Wireless elevates the idea of M2M beyond its standard circle and into the world of global enterprise.
Cover Story:
Women of M2M
The world of innovation is changing and nothing better demonstrates this than the 44 women acting as beacons for their companies.
Cover Story:
Being Revered
Feb/Mar 2013
Cover Story:
Feeling Right at Home
Cover Story:
M2M (It’s Just Plain M2M)
Cover Story:
A Connected Year in the Making?
Cover Story:
Haves and Have Nots Face Disasters
Cover Story:
The Connected Home Protocol
New connected devices in the home require new testing and certification services.
Cover Story:
Data Ownership Drives Global Opportunity
Cover Story:
You Oughta be in Pictures
Nov/Dec 2012
Cover Story:
CW 100: An Amazing Undertaking
Cover Story:
Turning Research into Reality
What the world could look like once the idea of “autotechture” begins to take hold.
Cover Story:
The New Chief Connected Officer
Starting in the May/June 2012 edition of Connected World, Gregg Garrett began to explore how the emerging connected world is beginning to demand the attention of the C-level executives in established companies. Like the Internet did in the 1990s, the connected world is demanding structural changes to realize emerging strategies in this new environment.
Cover Story:
Technology Powers the Magic of the Holiday Season at UPS
Cover Story:
The Data Exists, But Will They Use It?
Cover Story:
All I Want is Everything Connected
Sept/Oct 2012
Cover Story:
A Nordstrom Lesson
Cover Story:
Connected Citizens Take on Government
Cover Story:
M2M Gets Transportation in Gear
Cover Story:
Disrupting Innovation
Cover Story:
BYOD: When Geeks Invade the Workplace
Companies need to balance security and new technologies.
Cover Story:
Pick Your Holiday Shopping Apps
Cover Story:
Improving Driver Safety
July/Aug 2012
Cover Story:
How M2M is Transforming Service Delivery
Cover Story:
Building the Smart Utility
Cover Story:
Getting in the Habit of Hands-Free
Strike a responsible balance between the road and the phone.
Cover Story:
Connections: The Past Is Prologue
Cover Story:
The Connected Consumer Is King
Cover Story:
Are You A Responsible Driver?
Cover Story:
The Power of NFC: When Tapping Points Hit the Tipping Point
NFC can give consumers more buying options than ever before.
Cover Story:
LTE Powers New Possibilities in Transportation and Fleet Management
May/June 2012
Cover Story:
Why Has Mobile Device Adoption Gone Viral?
Our need for devices becomes deeply personal.
Cover Story:
The Evolution of TV White Spaces
Could TV white spaces solve the spectrum crunch?
Cover Story:
Roses, or Devices, in Bloom
Cover Story:
Consumers Want Simplicity
Cover Story:
Battling the Enemy of Innovation
Cover Story:
LTE and M2M: In It for the Long Run
Cover Story:
Gaming Goes Forward
As gaming becomes a more connected experience, it's attracting a fresh breed of "gamers" and inspiring new industry players to join the fun.
March/April 2012
Cover Story:
Small Steps Lead to Big (Connected) Things
Cover Story:
Behind the Scenes with Stop-Motion Animation
Connected World talks to awesome Brits about pirates.
Cover Story:
A New World with Metawatch
Cover Story:
The Great Transformation
The difference between change and true transformation
Cover Story:
K.I.T.T.: The Past Marks the Future
Cover Story:
The Challenges of Connectivity for Telematics
Jan/Feb 2012
Cover Story:
Is a Mobile App the Solution for Your Business?
Businesses are going mobile internally as well as externally.
Cover Story:
The ‘Lorax’ of Driver Distraction
Cover Story:
Driving Smarter Decisions in a Connected World
Cover Story:
Quick to Connect
Innovative approaches to M2M development are accelerating the pace of innovation, helping products get connected to the Internet faster than ever.
Cover Story:
Sierra Wireless Provides the Roadmap to Navigate Early LTE Rollouts
Cover Story:
Pain Is Good
Successful devices will relieve the discomfort
Cover Story:
Say What?! Hearing Aids are Cool?
Hearing aids today are helping people hear better than ever through a host of high-tech functionality. Options include the ability to capture conversations through a microphone the companion clips to his or her shirt that streams the voice to a small receiver worn around the hearing aid user's neck.
Cover Story:
Rapid M2M Development: Realtime Solutions, Done Right
Nov/Dec 2011
Cover Story:
M2M Behavioral Economics: Incentivizing a Better World
Cover Story:
Eleven Years Later, Did Tech Visionaries Get it Right?
Predicting what's beyond the horizon for technology is nearly impossible, even for visionaries.
Cover Story:
Making Tradeoffs with the Mobile Wallet
Cover Story:
A White (Spaces) Christmas
Devices that use unlicensed TV white spaces to connect could be coming to a retailer near you. That is, if regulation doesn’t change the way access to the white spaces is distributed. White space devices could be nearly anything, from digital photo frames to health-monitoring systems.
Cover Story:
NFC: Terrifying or Terrific?
The prospect of near-field communication embedded within every smartphone has some people excited, others incredulous.
Cover Story:
Gifts for the Gadget Minded
Sept/Oct 2011
Cover Story:
Glucose Monitoring Goes Mobile
Cover Story:
Turning a Killer App into Roadkill
Cover Story:
Selling Open Standards to the C-Suite
Cover Story:
The Well-Connected Home of the Future
Cover Story:
Rest In Peace POTS
Cover Story:
Predicting The Future Is In Reading The Clouds
Cover Story:
IPv6: War of the Worlds
July/Aug 2011
Cover Story:
Seven Lessons on the Smart Grid
Cover Story:
Electronic Wallets and the Big Chill
Cover Story:
Bitten by the Bug
Cover Story:
A Tech-Rich Future in Healthcare
Could the medical field take a cue from the airlines?
Cover Story:
Connected Devices, Or Is It M2M?
Cover Story:
My Dryer Has A Brain
May/June 2011
Cover Story:
Predicting a Winner In the Smartphone Wars of 2011
Cover Story:
Drive Trial: Two Weeks on the Edge
Cover Story:
Data Flows in 2020
Cover Story:
The Death of Best Buy
Is the king of electronics headed for extinction? If Best Buy doesn't find a way to reconnect with customers and investors it will be known as goodbye.
Cover Story:
Don't Be a Bully
Cover Story:
Connected in the Age of Knowledge
Cover Story:
The New Smart-Embedded Economy
March/April 2011
Cover Story:
LTE Adoption: Are We Missing Something?
Cover Story:
Ready or Not, Here Comes Smarter Video
Cover Story:
It's the 21st Century: Do you know where your computer is?
Cover Story:
M2M Scale: An Open Value Chain Debate
Cover Story:
LTE, Say What?
Jan/Feb 2011
Cover Story:
The Wonderland of 4G
Is the next-generation wireless network a fit for connected devices? Yes and no.
Cover Story:
Patience Is Not Just a Virtue
– It’s a Necessity
Cover Story:
My CES Wish List
Cover Story:
When Machines Talk Service Companies Profit
Cover Story:
Eyes on the Road
Cover Story:
Preventing Distracted Driving: How Connected Is Too Connected?
Technology is part of the problem, but could also be a part of the solution.
Cover Story:
Hitched: TV And the Internet Are Tying the Knot
Meet the matchmakers who are orchestrating what might be the biggest change to TVs since the color screen.
December 2010
Cover Story:
Safe Keeping
Tracking technology provides peace of mind to caregivers of at-risk loved ones.
Cover Story:
A Tinkerer's Approach To Connected Devices
Cover Story:
Connecting Your City
Cover Story:
Tech Meets Social Need
Innovators strive to reach the remote AND underserved for a truly connected world.
Cover Story:
With a Little Help from My Friends: Location-Based Shopping
November 2010
Cover Story:
Success in the Connected World Sometimes Requires Disconnecting
Even connectivity should be enjoyed in moderation.
Cover Story:
Calm in the Face of Chaos
Cover Story:
Building the Connected World Brand
Cover Story:
Fit to be Tried
Technology becomes your personal trainer.
Sept/Oct 2010
Cover Story:
1-800-The Book —Oh My
Cover Story:
AOL Was Right
Cover Story:
Location: It's Here. It's There. It's Everywhere.
There's no escaping the buzz surronding location-based services, and with good reason.
Cover Story:
The Car of the Future
Cover Story:
Pay to Park
Lose the quarters, parking meters get smart.
July/Aug 2010
Cover Story:
Welcome to Our Glimpse into Connected World
Cover Story:
A Bad Romance
Cover Story:
Get Yourself Connected
Chances are you are connected and don't even know it. Get in the know with this primer on our connected world.
Cover Story:
Don't Look Now. You're Being Watched
Cover Story:
It May Be Smart But Is The Grid Safe?
Does the creation of a smart grid compromise our nation's security?
May/June 2010
Dateline:
European Perspective: Smart Networks for Smartphones
M2M Supplement:
M2M + (Insert Vertical Here) = Smart Move
Vertical markets are changing the way they do business as M2M technology gains momentum.
Remote Notes:
The Missing Link
M2M Supplement:
In The Drivers Seat
A reliable network ensures drivers that wherever they go, coverage is assured.
Final Word:
Speeding to a Smarter Grid
Dateline:
M2M & A Tracker
113 ... acquisitions since Jan. 1, 2004*
Cover Story:
Gazing Into Connected World
Our crystal ball shows new developments in M2M and some out-of-the-box thinking ahead.
First Word:
Connecting With M2M
M2M Supplement:
Cutting the Cord
GSM-based home security systems help turn the idea of a smart home into reality.
M2M Supplement:
Power to the People
As the nation increases its focus on energy, M2M plays a critical role in pushing awareness.
M2M Supplement:
A New Age in Healthcare
Remote monitoring technology helps caregivers make more “housecalls.”
Enabling Technologies:
Facility Intelligence
Wireless technologies continue to play a strong role in helping reduce energy consumption in buildings.
M2M Strategies:
The Doctor Is In: Remotely
Wireless technology has become the new blank canvas on which the future of healthcare will be created.
M2M Supplement:
Laser - Focused and Willing to Bend
T-Mobile helps position its partners for success, now and in the future.
Mar/Apr 2010
Cover Story:
Designing Power Management Systems for Long-Term Reliability
Lithium battery technology plus intelligent product design achieves 30-year service life.
Look Who's Talking:
Coyote Systems
Slow Down!
Dateline:
European Perspective: On the Road And for Your Health
Cover Story:
P10NEERS
It takes a little something extra to champion change in the face of uncertainty. These individuals have what it takes.
First Word:
M2M Needs Some Standards
Dateline:
M2M & A Tracker
112 ... acquisitions since Jan. 1, 2004*
Cover Story:
2010 Product Showcase
Jan/Feb 2010
Dateline:
M2M &A Tracker
111 ... acquisitions since Jan. 1, 2004
What's Up:
Healthcare: Motion Monitored
What's Up:
Public Safety/Law Enforcement: Remote Weather Warning System
First Word:
Connected Devices Light Up 2010
Innovations:
2 LINING UP FOR QUE —
Innovations:
5 NETBOOK MARRIES EREADER —
Look Who's Talking:
Energy Inc./Google
Google Your Energy Consumption
Dateline:
European Perspective: Monitoring the Elderly
Winning Ways:
Avoid The Tipping Point
Texas-based utility demonstrates how a little demand response can help lead to better energy consumption habits.
Innovations:
6 RUNNING PARTNER —
Cover Story:
A New Set of Wheels
Technology brings back the joyride for drivers ... can new gadgets reinvent the business for automakers?
Dateline:
A Value Connection
Innovations:
1 WEIGHING AND Wi-Fi WORK WONDERS —
Innovations:
4 TRACKING TEENS BEHIND THE WHEEL —
Final Word:
The Emergence of Smart Business
Cover Story:
M2M AND SOCIAL NETWORKS: THE MISSED CONNECTION
Enabling Technologies:
Perpetual Power
When failure is not an option, the power management system needs to be proven and reliable.
Of Minds and Machines:
Raising Our Batting Average
Flexibility is key to making it easier for M2M deployments to launch successfully
Innovations:
3 MOBILE MEMORIES —
Nov/Dec 2009
Dateline:
M2M & A Tracker
106 ... acquisitions since Jan. 1, 2004
Cover Story:
Sensors Never Sleep
Remote Monitoring for Healthcare
Remote Notes:
Open Source M2M
The Business of M2M:
It’s Time to Ease the Development Process
Helping avoid some technical and business challenges associated with bringing a telematics solution to market.
Six Pillars:
Get Smart
Smart service technology helps companies create a new level of service excellence.
First Word:
Building a Danica Patrick Brand
Dateline:
Beyond OnStar
Dateline:
A Little Price Assistance
Dateline:
Did you know—
Innovations:
5 Pill Patrol —
Dateline:
Smart City, Iowa
Dateline:
Talking About M2M Overseas
What's Up:
Energy/Utilities: Opening Up the Standard
Innovations:
2 MORE THAN A PICTURE —
Innovations:
3 DOOR TO THE FUTURE —
Innovations:
4 CAR FOR A DAY (OR AN HOUR) —
Final Word:
Sensors for the Heart
Innovations:
6 Automation Upgrade —
What's Up:
Healthcare: Improving Results
What's Up:
Energy/Utilities: A Smarter Bill
What's Up:
Transportation: All About Location
What's Up:
Military: Flying High With RFID
Innovations:
1 READ ALL ABOUT IT —
Sept/Oct 2009
What's Up:
Retail: CONNECTED CUP
What's Up:
Transportation: A LINK FOR LENDERS
Dateline:
M2M & A Tracker
106 ... acquisitions since Jan. 1, 2004
What's Up:
Retail: HIGH TECH FOR HIGH FASHION
What's Up:
Transportation: SECURING THE ROAD
What's Up:
Healthcare: REMOTE DIAGNOSIS
What's Up:
Transportation: CHANGING BEHAVIOR
What's Up:
Government: MEASURING THE MAIL
The Business of M2M:
Clearing up Cellular Data Confusion
The M2M value chain represents the way forward for machine-to-machine, providing customers with what they need to succeed.
Six Pillars:
Telemetry Today: Grills, Bills, Ills, and Fills
Telemetry is finding its way into more markets, providing value in everything from smart meters to Southern cooking.
Final Word:
Harvesting Smart Grid Benefits
Dateline:
Behavioral Modification
Dateline:
We Bring Green Things to Life
Dateline:
Mooo-ving Right Along
Dateline:
Protecting (Some) People against RFID
Innovations:
2 DYNAMIC DIGITAL DISPLAYS —
Dateline:
Miles of Highways
Innovations:
1 RUNNING SMART —
Innovations:
3 BEAT THE TRAFFIC —
Innovations:
4 TRACK AND TRAIN —
Innovations:
5 SHINING LIGHT ON LOST DOGS —
Innovations:
6 MEDICAL ASSISTANT —
Cover Story:
Make Your Platform Hold Up
Establishing the right foundation for your solution is the ultimate key to success.
Dateline:
Did you know—
Winning Ways:
Reducing Downtime and Manhours
Pattern recognition software Monitors nuclear plants for potential equipment failures.
Enterprise:
Moving M2M Into The Strategic Realm
Has M2M progressed from being a point solution to being recognized as a strategic benefit at your company?
First Word:
It’s Not About the Phones
Remote Notes:
Smart Antennas for the Automotive Marketplace
Dateline:
M2M in Europe
July/Aug 2009
Final Word:
Will M2M Ever Be Huge?
M2M Strategies:
The History of M2M
Its future may be in healthcare, energy, and consumer markets—among others—but the roots of machine-to-machine might surprise you.
First Word:
The Debate Continues
Six Pillars:
The Business Value of Sensors
Information derived from wireless sensor networks may have a powerful effect on the way your company makes decisions.
M2M Strategies:
“Smart” Lessons from M2M’s Past
Winning Ways:
Setting the Security Standard
Non-profit organization Goodwill Manasota takes an out-of-the-box approach for security.
Enabling Technologies:
Where Has All the Wired Gone?
With all the buzz about wireless M2M, some think wired connectivity could become a thing of the past. But a closer look reveals a much different story.
Cover Story:
M2M HOT ZONES
Where in the world might M2M take off like wildfire, and what applications are fanning the flames?
The Business of M2M:
U.S. STIMULUS: SHOW ME THE MONEY
Develop the right plan to help you capitalize on available funds
What's Up:
Transportation: WHERE ARE THE SCHOOL BUSES?
What's Up:
Food & Beverage: TAGGING KEGS
What's Up:
Education: SCHOOLING SECURITY
Dateline:
From Space Down to Earth
Innovations:
4 EVERYWHERE SECURITY —
Innovations:
5 TAKE HOME A RABBIT —
What's Up:
Military: COORDINATED EFFORTS
Innovations:
6 TRACKING TEEN DRIVERS —
Innovations:
3 WIRELESS WELLNESS —
Dateline:
Platform Proliferation
Dateline:
Did you know—
Dateline:
A Highway Tax
Innovations:
1 TALK TO THE DOOR —
Dateline:
Governing the Grid
Innovations:
2 AURA OF AWARENESS —
Dateline:
Rise of the Networks
Remote Notes:
Widespread Deployment Challenges
May/June 2009
Cover Story:
Product Showcase
Six Pillars:
Making the Grid Smart
Is the $4.5 billion earmarked in the economic stimulus plan enough to support the M2M infrastructure needed to generate a smart grid?
First Word:
Heard on the Street
Cover Story:
Machine-to-Machine Stimulus
Government funds allocated for energy and healthcare could also help the machine-to-machine market make a bigger name for itself worldwide.
The Business of M2M:
Machine-to-Masses
The Coming Mass Market for Connected Devices
M2M Strategies:
In Cars
M2M invades the automobile as factory-installed telematics systems continue the evolution of technology becoming standard in new vehicles.
Winning Ways:
Making the Call
A tricky digital upgrade jeopardizes Tattletale Portable Alarm Systems’ pledge of unbeatable security, but a strong M2M partnership comes to the rescue.
Mar/Apr 2009
What's Up:
Transportation: SEA-WORTHY SECURITY
Dateline:
Reaching the National Stage
Dateline:
Kyocera Exits M2M
What's Up:
Healthcare: ASSET-TRACKING ANTIDOTE
Dateline:
Module Game Changers?
Of Minds and Machines:
Over-the-air Management
MANAGING M2M MODULES WITH OTA SOFTWARE EXPANDS FUNCTIONALITY AND REDUCES COSTS.
Final Word:
Economic downturn hits M2M in Europe
Remote Notes:
The Tireless Wireless Mesh Network
The Business of M2M:
Crossing the Chasm on a Dinghy
A closer look at where all the venture capital money is and (isn’t) going in the M2M space.
What's Up:
Retail: EYES IN THE AISLES
First Word:
It’s M2M Mr. President
Cover Story:
Pioneers of change
Without the energy, enthusiasm, imagination, and ideas generated by these trailblazers, technologies you use every day might never have been brought to market.
Six Pillars:
Telematics Decree in Brazil: Blessing or Curse?
The Brazilian government has mandated new initiatives and many are questioning how it will impact the telematics industry for years to come.
Dateline:
M2M & A Tracker 96 ...acquisitions since Jan. 1, 2004
M2M Strategies:
The Two Sides of Green M2M
Whether you see saving energy as a way to trim the budget or a way to help the planet, M2M is behind the technology that makes both of these solutions possible.
Jan/Feb 2009
Dateline:
EMERGING DEVICES, DEVELOPING MARKET?
Final Word:
IP FOR SMART OBJECTS: WHY NOW?
Dateline:
M2M M&A TRACKER—93 acquisitions since Jan. 1, 2004
Remote Notes:
TAKING YOUR (CELLULAR) M2M PRODUCT GLOBAL
Dateline:
ACQUISITION POSES INTERESTING QUESTIONS
Dateline:
Did you know—
Innovations:
1 SMART CARTS—
Dateline:
UNITED STATES: WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR M2M?
Dateline:
M2M & MEDICARE
Innovations:
3 MAKE A CONNECTION—
Innovations:
5B …AND BY SEA—
What's Up:
ENERGY/UTILITIES: DOWN ON THE TANK FARM
What's Up:
AUTOMOTIVE: INFORMATION HIGHWAY
What's Up:
EDUCATION: M2M GETS SCHOOLED
M2M Strategies:
NEW MODULES FOR MOTOROLA
With four new modules set to hit the market, Dennis Kelly, director of sales, North America region, and Effi Goren, director, strategic marketing, Motorola M2M Wireless Modules, www.motorola.com/m2m, Schaumburg, Ill., spoke with M2M magazine regarding the impact these products will have on the global M2M market going forward.
Six Pillars:
RFID: A TOOL FOR THE CONSTRUCTION LIFECYCLE
Radio frequency identification tags and readers are having an effect across the construction team, from pre-casters to corporate owners.
What's Up:
ENERGY/UTILITIES: A METER WORLD
What's Up:
AUTOMOTIVE: CALLING ALL CARS
What's Up:
MEDICAL: LOCATION CHECKUP
Innovations:
2 AUTOMATIC EYE—
Innovations:
5A BY LAND…
Innovations:
4 TO CATCH A THIEF—
What's Up:
TRANSPORTATION: MINDING THE FLEET
First Word:
THE RISE AND FALL IN 2009
Cover Story:
WHAT’S AHEAD FOR M2M?
The worldwide economic turmoil has left many industries crippled, but where there’s hardship for some, there will be opportunities for others.
The Business of M2M:
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
Push and pull shifts occurring in the wake of the groundwork that has already been laid could mean new changes in M2M vertical markets.
Enabling Technologies:
MODULES IN VOGUE
Updates and enhancements ensure M2M modules feature up-to-the-minute technology.
Dateline:
INTERNATIONAL: EUROPEAN UTILITIES ACTION
Dec/Jan 2008
Winning Ways:
Pitt Ohio Express: Keep On Trucking
A Custom Fleet-Management Solution Keeps Track of Trucks to Let Carriers and Customers Know When Shipments Arrive.
Winning Ways:
Realtor Assn. of Northwest Chicagoland: M2M Opens the Door
A High-Tech Lockbox System Provides Convenience and Security to Busy Real Estate Professionals.
Remote Notes:
Adopting M2M: Getting the C-Suite to Care
Final Word:
Mobile M2M Communications: Real-world business drivers
M2M Strategies:
From the Machine to the Enterprise
Dateline:
Meters for Millions
Of Minds and Machines:
Beyond the Handset
Bluetooth is Coming to a PND Near You.
What's Up:
Mission Critical
What's Up:
Keep Your Distance
Cover Story:
Is It Touching Our Everyday Lives?
From the home, to the car, to your health, consumer applications of machine-to-machine technology are growing, and they’re slowly, but surely, changing the way we live.
What's Up:
Ich Bin Energy Concious
Dateline:
In the M2M Spotlight
First Look:
HSPA for Public Safety Applications
What's Up:
Chemical Reaction
First Look:
Fleet Management and Asset Tracking Keep on Truckin’
First Word:
An Era of Accountability
Dateline:
Higher Yield
Dateline:
Vital Networks
First Look:
Motorola continues support of WiMAX
M2M Strategies:
Retailing Rejuvenated
Vending machine retailers and M2M form a sweet partnership that proves productive and profitable.
Dateline:
M2M & A Tracker
Sept/Oct 2008
What's Up:
Getting in the Middle
Cover Story:
Budget Centsability
How to expect unexpected costs when technology is the name and feature-rich is the game.
Cover Story:
M2M is Leeding the way
Reducing carbon footprints is the trend, and M2M offers many advantages for architects and contractors when they want to create “environmentally intelligent” buildings.
Dateline:
Climbing Higher
First Look:
Going Green with M2M
Dateline:
WATCHING WIMAX
Dateline:
M2M & A Tracker
First Word:
Change is Here
Dateline:
Data Goes To Work
Dateline:
Putting the Brakes on Payd
What's Up:
Gold Medal Monitoring
Dateline:
ALL FOR ONE
Dateline:
M2M Glossary
First Look:
Partnership Results
First Look:
A Common Form Factor
What's Up:
Bringing M2M Down to Earth
What's Up:
At Home With Control
Enabling Technologies:
Will ZigBee Rise Above the Rest?
There are numerous candidates in M2M for the title of low-power wireless standard. ZigBee has emerged as the front runner, but how is it measuring up to today’s other low-power options? As always, “It depends.”
Winning Ways:
Reactrix Systems Inc.: Projecting Success
To speed deployment of its interactive media solutions, Reactrix turned to wireless M2M connectivity.
Remote Notes:
Wireless Sensor Networks: For a Green World
Our factories, refineries, warehouses, and offices all waste energy. However, by using the next generation of ZigBee-based wireless sensor networks, not only can we greatly reduce wasted energy, but we can also reduce the amount of energy required to actually operate these networks. Until now, wires and cables for power and connectivity have limited the widespread adoption of sensor networks by making them difficult and expensive to install and maintain. Battery-powered wireless networks can simplify installation and reduce cost, but their high power consumption and the corresponding need for regular battery replacement has made wireless networks difficult and costly to maintain.
Of Minds and Machines:
The Automated Home
Wireless M2M in the home has moved from a hobbyist curiosity to an essential technology.
Winning Ways:
ABB Robotics: Robot Wellness Plan
Smart services solution monitors robots to proactively predict maintenance issues; keeps industrial plants running.
Final Word:
Field-Asset Management: Selling to Smaller Businesses
July/August 2008
Cover Story:
M2M Goes Global
M2M (machine-to-machine) isn’t the small, niche market it used to be. Machine-to-machine has made it to the worldwide stage. And though the global market has yet to reach the 12-digit revenue figures market analysts love to use to describe its booming growth potential, the industry is making considerable headway around the globe.
Remote Notes:
Wi-Fi-Enabled M2M
The M2M market has always been accused of being a late adopter of new technologies; so, the question being raised is now: Why are noncellular technologies not taking over traditional ones in the M2M market?
First Word:
What’s in a Name?
Of Minds and Machines:
Sensors and Safety
Consider the possibility of a structure, Sensors help agencies avoid the costs associated with the structural deterioration of bridges. Every time a bridge collapses there are catastrophic results.
M2M Supplement:
2008 M2M United Highlights
Highlights from the most influential, in-depth, and focused conference in the M2M industry, including the winners of the 2008 M2M Value Chain Awards.
Final Word:
Driving Broad Adoption: The Proper Ecosystem
West Technology Research Solutions LLC (WTRS), www.wtrs.net, Mountain View, Calif., has tracked the development of WSN (wireless sensor networking) and LDRN (low data rate networking), applications and markets since 2002.
Enabling Technologies:
If You Ask It, They Will Answer
There are a number of topics that can stir up quite the discussion among those in the WSN (wireless sensor networking) world: what the “right” networking protocol is, how to best power senor nodes, or even what’s the best way to determine return on investment. To really delve into these topics, Managing Editor Cassie del Pilar and Editorial Director Peggy Smedley brought together 19 companies that are leading WSN innovation and received their insight into the most important business and technological issues potenial WSN adopters need to consider.
M2M Strategies:
Emerging with Innovation
The WSN (wireless sensor networking) industry is emerging as a force to be reckoned with in the M2M (machine-to-machine) world. It stands strong as one of the Six Pillars of M2M and is proving to be one of the fastest growing market segments in the machine-to-machine space.
May/June 2008
First Look:
Wi-Fi Integration
Of Minds and Machines:
Stimulating Growth
There is no question that the M2M (machine-to-machine) market is ready for rapid growth. As M2M devices and services become less expensive, more industries are finding a compelling ROI (return-on-investment) for M2M applications.
What's Up:
Ford Work Solutions
First Look:
Global Connectivity
First Look:
Managing Service Costs
Cover Story:
And the Nominees Are…
Each year, M2M magazine calls on the machine-to-machine industry to nominate corporate adopters that have lived, as some may call it, the M2M dream: These adopters see the potential business benefits in M2M, venture into the unfamiliar world of machine-to-machine communications, and emerge from the implementation process equipped to address the demands of today’s fast-paced, high-tech marketplace.
What's Up:
Truant Students Wear Monitors
Remote Notes:
Telematics and Economics
From the perspective of the ODM (original-design manufacturer), all electronics products are not alike; but telematics is especially unique in the way that technology and economic concerns are interwoven.
M2M Supplement:
2008 M2M Product Showcase
Welcome to the 2008 M2M Product Showcase, a catalog of many of the cutting-edge and innovative hardware products for M2M (machine-to-machine) communication on the marketplace today. In covering this leading-edge market, M2M’s key objective is to educate potential corporate adopters about the opportunities that are being made available through technology and provide examples of the companies making it work.
What's Up:
Rail Management
Dateline:
Powering M2M
What's Up:
All-Digital Network
What's Up:
Managing Energy Consumption
First Word:
And the Finalists Are...
This isn’t the first time I have written about communication following a basic model of sending, receiving, and processing.
Enabling Technologies:
The Changing Face of M2M Hardware
The chicken-and-egg duo of growing demand and increasing technological capabilities is driving M2M (machine-to-machine) hardware to become more powerful tools in a variety of vertical industries. Proof of this can be seen in a wide range of areas, from location-based services and security to building automation and control and predictive maintenance.
What's Up:
Vehicle Performance
What's Up:
Tech Integration
What's Up:
Mesh Networking
M2M Strategies:
Utility Remote Metering Moves Ahead
No one really questions that there are many advantages for remote monitoring and other associated services for utility metering and submetering. However, we might do well to acknowledge that electric meter reading, for instance, goes way back to 1882 and the Edison Co.’s chemical meter, which weighed electrodes for a reading. Needless to say, it wasn’t very good.
Mar/Apr 2008
Enabling Technologies:
Piece By Piece: Making M2M End-to-End
A growing number of companies in vertical markets are moving toward broad use of end-to-end systems to meet their M2M (machine-to-machine) needs.
What's Up:
Field Intelligence
First Look:
From short-range to long-range
What's Up:
Tank Levels
First Word:
Numerex Setting Standard
It’s not surprising when I sit down and talk with a CEO of a company I expect to hear the achievements of that company.
Dateline:
Zigbee Sales
What's Up:
Building M2M
Winning Ways:
Viasys Healthcare Inc.: Reliability Check-Ups
High technology has transformed modern medicine. With the help of advanced diagnostic and monitoring equipment, doctors and nurses can recognize and diagnose serious conditions earlier and more effectively than ever before.
Remote Notes:
Making Money from M2M
The commercialization of M2M (machine-to-machine) services presents an erratic trajectory at best.
What's Up:
On the Road
Final Word:
Challenging the Organization: Evolving with M2M
Providers of M2M (machine-to-machine) technologies, services, and applications continue to promise increased efficiencies, cost savings, and convenience.
Cover Story:
M2M Pioneers
This is the fourth edition of the M2M Pioneers, and each year the message of those selected becomes more refined and even more defined.
Of Minds and Machines:
Remote Service Is Green
How Does M2M Technology Fit into the Movement to be More Environmentally Conscious?
Of Minds and Machines:
Data Network Backup
Companies Look to Wireless Cellular M2M for Connection Backup and Business Continuity.
What's Up:
Keeping a Short Leash
What's Up:
Green Management
What's Up:
Improving Rehabilitation Success
What's Up:
Remote Access
Dateline:
Module consolidation
First Look:
Secure data access
First Look:
More visibility for more effective action
Jan/Feb 2008
Cover Story:
Location Based Services: Enabling Large and Small Enterprises
Emerging technology is using location information to empower a new level of asset management to achieve optimized operations and enhanced customer service.
First Look:
The Latest on Pyxos from Echelon
What's Up:
Service Reliability
What's Up:
Quicker Care
What's Up:
The Web vs. The Internet
M2M is still looking for a killer application to take it into the consumer mainstream.
What's Up:
Extra! Extra!
Remote Notes:
Remote Wireless M2M Devices: Battery Powered
M2M (machine-to-machine) devices are increasingly being found in remote locations or hard-to-access sites where hardwiring to an AC (alternating current) power source is either impossible or not cost effective.
Final Word:
Where to Put the Smarts in…Smart Services
Machine-to-machine systems present unique challenges to the system architect. How will the data be collected?
Enabling Technologies:
Smart Services for Mobile Assets
With machine-to-machine technology running behind the scenes, remote-product service is taking asset monitoring and maintenance to new levels.
M2M Strategies:
Insuring the Future of an Industry
While the automotive insurance industry looks to M2M for a breath of fresh air, the M2M industry looks back for insight into the future.
First Word:
Fact-Based Reporting
What's Up:
M2M Star
Dateline:
Keeping Momentum
Dateline:
The Future of WIMAX
Of Minds and Machines:
Metering Infrastructure
Meter networking provides innovative ways to cut energy consumption and respond to peak loads.
Dateline:
Health and Wellness
First Look:
Network Management for sensor networks
Nov/Dec 2007
Dateline:
Looking to the East
Dateline:
Mandates M.I.A.
What's Up:
Market Movement
With business models expanding, technology providers are taking the market in unexpected directions.
Enabling Technologies:
Powering Up With M2M
M2M is nothing new to utility companies, which have been using the technology since long before the term gained preeminence. Today, these same companies are at the forefront of adoption with an eye on the future.
What's Up:
Seal and Deliver
Remote Notes:
Eliminating Costs and Complexity from: Device Provisioning
Paying close attention to the provisioning and deployment processes of your wireless devices can yield tremendous opportunities to streamline operations.
Winning Ways:
Standardizing on M2M
Printing equipment and service provider adopts M2M to copy results from customer to customer.
What's Up:
Welcome to Zigbee City
What's Up:
Airborne M2M
First Look:
A Sensory Presence that Fits in your Pocket
Winning Ways:
Old McDonald's New Tricks
Service provider for the agriculture industry takes super farms to new heights with M2M technology.
What's Up:
Remote Monitoring
What's Up:
Sensor Power
What's Up:
Sun Synthesis
Of Minds and Machines:
Where’s the Fleet?
Perhaps more importantly: Are you able to monitor and track details about temperature and humidity?
Cover Story:
On the Brink
As a new year dawns, M2M tries to take one step closer to a world where everything connects.
First Look:
GPS Tracking Units for Commercial Fleets
First Word:
The Great Debate
What's Up:
Lone Driver
What's Up:
Bridge Safety
Final Word:
Categorizing M2M Applications for: Future Growth
We talk about the M2M market encompassing an extraordinarily broad range of applications and using an increasingly wide choice of technologies to remotely connect devices and machines.
What's Up:
Asset Monitoring
What's Up:
Crossing the Border
What's Up:
Air Time
What's Up:
Fashion Tags
Sept/Oct 2007
What's Up:
Who's Buying
Adopters of M2M technology come in many forms, and each has its own set of deployment best practices.
Final Word:
Stick to Our Knitting
M2M Strategies:
Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind
Equipment-management solutions help construction service companies keep their machinery safe and in shape
Cover Story:
Step by Step
A Guide to M2M Technology Deployment.
What's Up:
Reducing Downtime
Of Minds and Machines:
Supply-Chain Optimization
M2M systems provide inventory visibility and realtime data to fuel advanced logistics systems.
Of Minds and Machines:
Iberian Pig Farming
The iberian black pig is monitored using M2M solutions to ensure impeccable quality.
Dateline:
Sunset on the Horizon
Dateline:
EU Calls on Telematics Provider
Dateline:
EUROPEAN METER GROWTH
What's Up:
Coffee Talk
What's Up:
The Other Meter
Dateline:
Cellular Free Takes on Cellular
What's Up:
Sun Power
First Look:
Free Consultation for Adding Wireless Capability
What's Up:
Tire Check
What's Up:
RFID Reflux
First Look:
Turn any Serial Device into Wi-Fi Connected Equipment
Winning Ways:
From Millions to Zero with M2M
Aftermarket automotive retailer uses M2M technology to help its customers eliminate auto theft.
Winning Ways:
Striking Success with M2M
Oil and natural gas company uses M2M to overcome logistical challenges of managing remote assets.
What's Up:
No Hiccups Goes Unnoticed
What's Up:
Raw Fish and Chips
What's Up:
Water Supply Safety
First Look:
Product Application Overviews and Analysis
What's Up:
Catching Thieves
First Look:
Developer Network for Embedded Modules
What's Up:
Earthquake Proofing Your Home
What's Up:
It's Easy Being Green
July/Aug 2007
What's Up:
High-Value Assets
Cover Story:
Is M2M dead?
Rumors of M2M’s Death Are Premature; However, There Is Room In All The ScuttleButt For a Real Discussion About The Role Smart services Will Play Within M2M And Why M2M Isn’t Dying.
Winning Ways:
Getting Wind of M2M
Wind Energy Company turns to M2M for remote monitoring and sees a full return on investment in six months.
Of Minds and Machines:
Office Equipment
Sensor networks linked with M2M systems in Corporate campuses remove major road blocks.
What's Up:
Detecting Abuse
Of Minds and Machines:
Demand Response
M2M technology is changing the way demand response initiatives are accomplished.
What's Up:
Truth and Rumors
The summer months are very active ones for M2M M&A, and talk of major deals is beginning to heat up.
First Look:
Professional services for wireless sensor networking
Remote Notes:
How to Build the Intelligent M2M Network
There are an estimated 50-60 billion machines that could use network connectivity today.
Dateline:
The Future of 3G
First Word:
Watch Your Back
First Look:
Packing power into a small package
Dateline:
Riding The Acquisition Wave
What's Up:
Laundry Visibility
What's Up:
Situational Safety
Of Minds and Machines:
Point-of-Sale Terminals
Quick-service restaurants show the way for widespread adoption of ip connectivity using M2M.
Winning Ways:
Second Time’s a Charm
Energy distributor gives its existing AMR solution a system makeover to cut costs, prevent theft, and improve service.
May/June 2007
Dateline:
Division Launch
Dateline:
Arcom Chooses Eclipse
What's Up:
Solution Upgrade
What's Up:
Vending Monitoring
First Word:
M2M in Action
Dateline:
Shipping and Ports
Dateline:
Ventyx Emerges
Dateline:
Location Module
What's Up:
Safety First
Dateline:
Telematics Experience
First Look:
HLR for M2M device provisioning
What's Up:
Who’s in Charge Here?
Final Word:
Cellular M2M: Transatlantic Perspectives
What immediately hits a European observer when first looking deeper into the North American cellular M2M market is the very different approach to vehicle telematics.
Dateline:
PTCRB Approved
First Look:
Kyocera on the move in M2M
Of Minds and Machines:
Electronic Medical Record
Machine to machine connectivity provides increased data accuracy for the electronic medical record.
What's Up:
Mini Goes Big
Of Minds and Machines:
Making the Line Move Faster
Network configuration management using M2M helps boost service speed at the point of sale.
Cover Story:
And the Nominees Are...
Take a sneak peek at the finalist for the 2007 M2M Value Chain Awards
Mar/Apr 2007
Winning Ways:
Easy Payments
A retail payment solution helps Jordan Oil recover lost business and prepare for the future.
Enabling Technologies:
Hybrid Networks
A guide to coordinating connectivity when one method of transmitting machine data just isn't enough.
Dateline:
Module Momentum
Dateline:
Motorola Certification
What's Up:
Watch Dog
Dateline:
MVNO Consolidation
Dateline:
Intelligent Workforce
What's Up:
Call Location
First Look:
Flexibility comes in many forms
What's Up:
Car Factory
What's Up:
Snow Bands
What's Up:
Heart Monitor
What's Up:
Vitamin Tag
What's Up:
Energy Management
First Word:
An Impressive M2M List
Of Minds and Machines:
Coffee as a Service
M2M is changing the way coffee machines are offered to consumers and businesses in Italy.
Remote Notes:
Large-Scale Deployments: OSGi AND M2M
The OSGi platform specification defines a framework for the delivery of managed services to networked environments.
What's Up:
The Six Pillars
M2M is connecting the physical world to business systems through six primary market segments.
What's Up:
Market Shrink
Jan/Feb 2007
What's Up:
Convenience Store
First Word:
Marriages: Succeed and Fail
M2M Strategies:
Testing the Waters
To help prove the business case for M2M, companies need effective trial deployments that address more than technology.
Final Word:
Cui Bono: Assuring Customer Adoption
Cui Bono, a Latin phrase that means “Who benefits?,” is often used in our justice system to help identify the beneficiaries of a crime in order to find the guilty parties.
Dateline:
Ember Offers ZigBee RF Kit
Dateline:
Enfora Closes Financing
What's Up:
Energy Usage
Dateline:
Turbo-Charged Supply Chain
Dateline:
IDC Study
Dateline:
M2M Potential Growing
First Look:
Embedded Device Server for Typical Requirements
First Look:
Seeking Stability in Wireless Sensor Networking
What's Up:
Everything M2M
Analysis of m2m on the web continues to improve, including the new research site m2m premier.
What's Up:
Wireless Upgrade
First Look:
Embedded Design and Development
First Look:
Machine-to-Machine Online Shopping Portal
Winning Ways:
Praxair: Remote-Inventory Monitoring
Major industrial-gas supplier uses m2m to create a ‘virtual pipeline’ supply chain for reliable product delivery.
What's Up:
On the Right Track
What's Up:
Solar Power
What's Up:
Trash Collection
Of Minds and Machines:
More Than a Soda Machine
Advances in wireless create opportunities for device operators to add new services.
Of Minds and Machines:
M2M Adoption: Is the Time Right?
If you are anything like me, when you finally take the leap and purchase a new high-tech appliance, you spend...
What's Up:
Safety Shoe
Dateline:
M2M M&A and Partnerships
What's Up:
State System
Winning Ways:
Northeast Utilities: Realtime Demand Response
New england’s largest utility uses machine-to-machine technology for energy-use data acquisition and reporting.
Nov/Dec 2006
Of Minds and Machines:
AVL + OBD = ROI2
Adding vehicle data to tracking solutions delivers more mileage from M2M investment.
First Look:
Seeking Stability in Wireless Sensor Networking
First Look:
For M2M, the Network is the NOC
Dateline:
RFID: Parts and Terminals
Dateline:
M2M Partnering Strong
Dateline:
Patent Award
Dateline:
Business as Usual
Remote Notes:
RFID: The Value of a Network Approach
Ever since the U.S. Dept. of Defense, Wal-Mart, and other retailers started requiring suppliers to...
Dateline:
Cargo Tracking
Dateline:
Legal Limbo
M2M Strategies:
Small Price to Pay
A look at the technology required for M2M applications in the retail industry.
Of Minds and Machines:
Improving Quality of Life
Remote patient monitoring is making a big difference for people with chronic health problems.
Winning Ways:
Air Products: Hydrogen Fueling
Industrial-gas company takes m2m on the road for mobile hydrogen stations that educate on alternative fuels.
Winning Ways:
Ampla: Bandidos de la Energía (Energy Bandits)
Energy-distribution company boosts revenue by reducing energy theft and by introducing peak/off-peak billing.
What's Up:
M2M Gems
What's Up:
Valuable Resources
First Look:
Embedded Design and Development
First Look:
New Approach to Remote Input/Output
What's Up:
Fashion for Life
Final Word:
MVNO Business Models: Know Your Options
Companies that want to network physical assets using cellular wireless technology don’t have to go straight to the carriers.
First Look:
M2M Endorsement from Accenture CTO
What's Up:
Dairy Tracking
What's Up:
A Little Control
What's Up:
Eyes on Trucks
What's Up:
M2M Home Automation
Dateline:
Wavecom Win
First Look:
Embedded Device Server for Typical Requirements
M2M Strategies:
The Post-Sales Promised Land
Original equipment manufacturers are discovering the formulas for success with machine-to-machine technology.
First Word:
Do You Feel Lucky?
Dateline:
Product Partnering
Cover Story:
A Common Language
Is a lack of standardization holding back machine-to-machine adoption?
What's Up:
The Year in M2M
A look back at the most significant developments in machine-to-machine technology in the last 12 months.
What's Up:
Remote Manager
Sept/Oct 2006
First Word:
M2M is Like Insurance
M2M Strategies:
Wireless Market Drivers
Take a ride with several major industry initiatives all designed to help adopters get a better handle on M2M opportunities.
Enabling Technologies:
True Building Control
Companies in every industry can find value from machine-to-machine technology for facility management, and building owners can find comfort in the fact evolving technology is up to the task.
Dateline:
Patent Settlement
What's Up:
Campus Management
Dateline:
M&A Update
Dateline:
Telit Makes its Move
Dateline:
RFID Protecting Pharma
Dateline:
Market Stats
What's Up:
Beer Mats and Bluegills
Breathe the air, drink the water, run a marathon, clean your backside, and order a cold one—all using M2M.
Dateline:
Short-Range M2M
First Look:
Pocket-Sized Tracking Device
What's Up:
Rail Watch
Remote Notes:
Wireless Data Solutions: Double-Edged Sword
Today, every industry faces challenges in providing employees with remote access to company data.
First Look:
Wavecom Diversifies Product Line
First Look:
Application Platform for Wireless M2M
Dateline:
Spain Tags In
Dateline:
Home Control
First Look:
Long-Range, Wireless IP/Ethernet
First Look:
Motorola Boosts Module Performance
First Look:
Wireless Sensor Network E-Seminar
What's Up:
Army Fleets
What's Up:
Track & Chart
Final Word:
Intercommunication Driven by Wireless Modules: The New Use of Machines
Pop quiz: who will be the most ardent user of mobile communications in four years? Stumped? Here is a hint. It won’t be people.
Cover Story:
State of the Union
M2M Technology has come a long way, but several challenges are still standing in the way of mainstream adoption.
Winning Ways:
Foodliner: Eyes on the Road
Bulk-food carrier delivers high customer service and asset monitoring with M2M fleet management.
Of Minds and Machines:
Oxygen Supply
Gas-supply companies use machine-to-machine Technology for automating logistics.
Of Minds and Machines:
Wastewater Systems
M2M technology is helping cut the costs and hassles of running septic or small water-treatment plants.
Winning Ways:
Kingston Ambassador: Cashless Vending
Wireless M2M solution for vending machines creates convenience for guests and better cashflow for hotels.
Winning Ways:
Omnicell: The Best Medicine
A spoonful of M2M helps the medicine go down—with no equipment downtime or mistakes along the way.
July/Aug 2006
Dateline:
Did You Know?
Dateline:
Car Watch
What's Up:
Fiber Optic M2M
Dateline:
Fleet Safety
What's Up:
Market on the Move
As M2M consolidation continues, market leaders make a push for widespread adoption.
Remote Notes:
Bypassing the Corporate Network: Avoiding the IT Tango
As most of us in the M2M world believe, there are more machines than people in the world and devices are set to be the next big demographic of Internet users.
Dateline:
Personal Data Security
Dateline:
Intermec Sues Back
What's Up:
Remote Diagnostics
First Look:
New Siemens module set for launch
What's Up:
Building Automation
What's Up:
Wider Spread Adoption
Dateline:
Market Impact
Dateline:
Customer Loyalty
What's Up:
Timely Technology
First Look:
Mesh networking status check
First Look:
Security for nuclear materials transport
What's Up:
Level Check
Winning Ways:
City of Palo Alto, Calif. Remote Meter Reading
Major utility turns to M2M for a more effective system of reading electrical meters via dialup.
First Look:
Industrial Internet appliance
First Look:
Expanding RFID’s application focus
Final Word:
Know Your Options: Satellite-Based M2M
Satellite-based M2M is becoming an attractive market, and therefore also a very competitive one.
What's Up:
Don’t Follow that Car!
First Look:
Online developer resource
What's Up:
Deep Down M2M
What's Up:
Safety in All Circumstances
What's Up:
Cow Tagging
Of Minds and Machines:
Converting Meters to Dollars
While automated meter reading has been proven outside the u.s., it faces challenges at home.
Of Minds and Machines:
Human Tele-Security
Remote-patient monitoring systems help keep track of people with alzheimer’s and dementia.
Winning Ways:
U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command Portable Deployability
Machine-to-machine technology helps the U.S. military maintain visibility of its assets in transit.
Winning Ways:
Genscape Inc. Energy Market Insight
Service firm uses electromagnetic-field measurements to provide utilities with valuable M2M data.
Dateline:
Service Elements
What's Up:
Book Tracker
M2M Strategies:
What the Doctor Ordered
Can M2M Technology help ease the burden of rising healthcare costs?
What's Up:
Lottery Luck
Enabling Technologies:
Product Progress
Important Developments in M2M Technology were on display at the M2M united conference.
First Word:
Creating the Network Effect
Cover Story:
Catching a Tiger by the Tail
The network effect of the M2M community is changing the way people, devices, and systems communicate.
What's Up:
Meter Consortium
May/June 2006
What's Up:
Water Protection
What's Up:
Precision Readings
What's Up:
Thorough RFID
M2M Strategies:
Managing Assets With M2M
Machine-To-Machine Is Fueling a Major Push to Improve Asset Management.
Dateline:
Logistics Obstacle
Dateline:
HP, BEA, and RFID
First Word:
InFusion or More Confusion?
Dateline:
DoD Spends More on RFID
First Look:
First-to-market with board-to-board
Dateline:
Heard on the Street
First Look:
A flexible alternative to wired networking
First Look:
New life for M2M engineering services
What's Up:
Equal Opportunity
Dateline:
Gen 2 RFID
Dateline:
Kiosk Monitoring
First Look:
Device servers: speed, features, and flexibility
Final Word:
Say Hello To Mass-Market Wireless M2M
What's Up:
Major Shakeup
As M2M absorbs another major acquisition, the market braces for even more consolidation.
Remote Notes:
M2M Adoption Hurdles: The Big Disconnect
M2M is a growth market—or at least it has the potential to be one. To live up to its potential, M2M needs to tackle cost and interoperability.
First Look:
A cellular carrier with an M2M site!
First Look:
Machine-to-machine daisy chain
Of Minds and Machines:
Traffic Control
Sensors on the highway linked with m2m systems give commuters new hope for a faster drive home.
Of Minds and Machines:
A New Reading on AMR
Wireless mesh networks represent the next evolution for automating the reading of utility meters.
Enabling Technologies:
Where to Begin?
Technology Decisions Abound in M2M Deployments, and Effective Pilot Projects Can the Way Show.
M2M Strategies:
Asset Maintenance Goes Online, In the Field, and Into orbit
M2M Can Make Enterprise Asset Data Accessible Regardless of Where It’s Located.
M2M Strategies:
The Secret Sauce: Why Asset Management Needs M2M
Smart Companies Have a Secret Ingredient to Effective Asset Management—M2M Technology.
March/April 2006
M2M Strategies:
At a Crossroads
Costs are falling and options are growing, bringing service and transportation fleets to the brink of mainstream adoption.
Enabling Technologies:
Deployment Hurdles
Watch out for these three issues that can stand in the way of maintaining the business value of machine-to-machine.
First Word:
See You in San Antonio
Dateline:
Smart Services
What's Up:
Five Minutes to Spin
Dateline:
RFID in Pharmaceuticals
What's Up:
Sprint Nextel and M2M
With a healthy balance sheet and a team in place, one carrier gets ready to make a move in M2M.
Dateline:
Amber Alerts
First Look:
Certification help on the way for North America
Dateline:
Secure ID Credentialing
First Look:
Another automation giant comes onboard
First Look:
Man overboard no match for mesh
First Look:
Wireless technology for building automation
First Look:
Security toolkits for industrial sensors
First Look:
Enfora leverages new technology from TI
Of Minds and Machines:
Air Quality Monitoring
Machine-to-machine systems provide detection and notification of adverse air-quality conditions.
Of Minds and Machines:
Upstream Operations
In the oil and gas industries, M2M deployment hinges on understanding the industry’s diverse assets.
Remote Notes:
Improving CNC/DNC Communication Using Wireless Serial Device Servers
In this age of the laptop computer, wireless LAN (local-area network) technology is just what the doctor ordered.
What's Up:
Underground Gas
Final Word:
The Plight of the Small M2M Developers
As a manufacturer’s representative for M2M hardware providers, I routinely work with many small OEMs (original-equipment manufacturers) trying to integrate...
What's Up:
Airport Security
What's Up:
OnStar Diagnostics
Jan/Feb 2006
What's Up:
Volcanic Eruption
What's Up:
A Little Help
First Look:
Easing the burden for M2M developers
First Look:
Now that’s one smart parking lot
First Look:
Load-your-own-code development kit
First Look:
Wireless local-area Ethernet connectivity
First Look:
Network reliability for building automation
What's Up:
Internet Appliance
First Word:
Marriages Made in Heaven
Dateline:
Investors Give Orbcomm A Boost
Dateline:
New M2M Venture
What's Up:
Sewage SCADA
Dateline:
M2M emphasis
Dateline:
Wi-Fi Voip
What's Up:
Going Up
Dateline:
RFID Infrastructure
What's Up:
Fire Warning
What's Up:
Faster pace
Dateline:
Market Consolidation
What's Up:
Struck a Nerve
Developers voice their frustration at the embedded machine-to-machine device certification process.
Final Word:
The Four Levels of M2M Service
M2M applications used within a business tend to develop through four distinct levels and it is often useful to use these...
Remote Notes:
Radio-Frequency Mesh Control Networks: Not Yet Ready For Prime Time
The market today is awash with stories about new radio-frequency mesh control networks for M2M applications.
What's Up:
Good News, Bad News
Of Minds and Machines:
M2M Innovates ATM
Wireless machine-to-machine connectivity lets banks put their ATMs right where the action is.
What's Up:
Parking Options
Dateline:
Axeda Looks Ahead
First Look:
ZigBee-based, building-monitoring solution
What's Up:
Fresh Food
Of Minds and Machines:
RFID Implications
Small businesses can establish a business case for rfid based on cost savings and efficiencies.
What's Up:
Passport Upgrade
What's Up:
Smog Scouts
What's Up:
Eye on Hazardous Material
Enabling Technologies:
Data Integration
To harness the value of machine data, companies must know how to integrate it into their business.
M2M Strategies:
Deploying an M2M Strategy
As a result of emerging machine-to-machine technology, we are beginning to witness a fundamental shift in the way people are communicating and interacting with machines and devices.
Nov/Dec 2005
Enabling Technologies:
Device Certification
Developers and manufacturers face a complicated maze to get their products certified.
M2M Strategies:
Land of Opportunity
Government bodies from federal to municipal find better ways to serve the public through M2M technology.
First Look:
M2M embedded software platforms
Of Minds and Machines:
M2M Parking System
Wireless, solar-powered parking system improves services while giving officials unprecedented control.
Of Minds and Machines:
Remote Pump Stations
Using cellular wireless M2M for remote pump station monitoring, reporting, and maintenance.
First Look:
Track the fleet, manage the address
What's Up:
Naval Lint
First Look:
Echelon makes M2M push with Pyxos platform
First Look:
A new module with a new OS
What's Up:
The Big ‘One’
Siemens is shifting its approach to machine-to-machine and in the process may shake up the entire industry.
First Look:
Sensor network service broker
First Look:
Utility, vending, and security data collection
Remote Notes:
How to Untangle the Messy Network
Even sophisticated industry professionals underestimate the complexity of wirelessly networking business assets (machines).
What's Up:
Beer Me
Dateline:
M2M in Your Living Room
What's Up:
Zigbee Credit
Dateline:
Ameren Powers up Market
What's Up:
Offshore M2M
Dateline:
Strategic Alliances
Dateline:
Red, White, and Blue...
Dateline:
Setting Standards
Dateline:
BEA Buys Connecterra
First Word:
Ending the Legal Carnage
Final Word:
M2M Implementation to Improve Service Operations
Telemetry, or in its newer namesake machine-to-machine communication, is hardly a new concept.
Sept/Oct 2005
What's Up:
Fleet Complete
Dateline:
Multi-Tech Teams with nPhase
First Word:
Navigating the Patent Thicket
Dateline:
Wireless M2M to Soar to $270 Billion by 2010
Dateline:
Sprint Nextel
What's Up:
Staying Honest
Dateline:
Patent Pool formed
Dateline:
RFID Headed for a Shakeout?
Dateline:
Chipcon Tops 1 Million
Dateline:
Vital Signs
Final Word:
A World Where Objects Reason, Sense, Act, Communicate
Remote Notes:
It’s 10 pm: Is Your M2M Network Secure?
We go to great lengths to secure our personal valuables with locks, gates, and alarm systems.
What's Up:
Magic Mushroom
M2M Using Cold-Chain Technology Is Making the Supermarket a Better Place—One Mushroom at a Time.
M2M Strategies:
Go With the Flow
To understand the technology components of M2M, follow the flow of the data.
First Look:
Aggregated and unbundled traffic rating
First Look:
Inventory management and control
First Look:
Looking into the minds of machines
First Look:
Sony’s site a must-read for M2M enthusiasts
What's Up:
Sharp Sound
What's Up:
Major Merger
What's Up:
Heating Up
M2M Strategies:
Cha-Ching!
Retailers begin cashing in on the many uses of machine-to-machine in their industry.
First Look:
Bringing energy monitoring to the masses
First Look:
Control channel security alarm monitoring
What's Up:
Coral Reefs
Of Minds and Machines:
Billboard Blues
Sign owners can significantly reduce unnecessary costs and improve customer service.
Of Minds and Machines:
Transmission Pipelines
Remote monitoring of critical distribution pipelines provides substantial business benefits.
What's Up:
FDA Approval
What's Up:
Sniper Spotter
What's Up:
Check Up
What's Up:
Utility Talk
What's Up:
Thinking Carpet
What's Up:
Ground Management
What's Up:
Great Zeus!
July/Aug 2005
Dateline:
Growth Market
Dateline:
RF Code Investment
What's Up:
Retail: Wal Mart Update
What's Up:
Professional Services: Guarding Assets
Dateline:
Partnering Takes Center Stage
Dateline:
Lantronix Sues Digi
Dateline:
Asset Availability
What's Up:
Rapid Advance
Counting Down Some of the Major Developments in M2M during its Most Productive Session So Far.
What's Up:
Construction: Hole Connection
First Look:
Wireless I/O, controllers, and device servers
What's Up:
Healthcare: Accent Project
What's Up:
Government/Education: Wildfire Sensors
What's Up:
Transportation/Distribution: Ticket Please
What's Up:
Transportation/Distribution: Gone Fishing
First Look:
Motorola to the rescue for iDEN developers
What's Up:
Professional Services: School Security
Dateline:
Retail Gets a Boost
Dateline:
Dynamic Growth
First Look:
Where SCADA and M2M Customers Converge
First Look:
Coverage tester helps ensure network reliability
First Word:
Turning Up the Volume
What's Up:
Retail: Hot Solutions
What's Up:
Miscellaneous: Preserving History
What's Up:
Healthcare: People Protection
First Look:
Carriers Extend Network Connectivity Options
First Look:
Can M2M Work Out of the Box?
What's Up:
Transportation/Distribution: Solid Ground
What's Up:
Manufacturing: Node Trial
Dateline:
RFID for Ocean Cargo Concerns
Of Minds and Machines:
M2M Hits the Slopes
Wireless Sensor Networks Can Significantly Improve Skier Safety and Emergency Response.
Dateline:
Truck Intelligence
Dateline:
CalAmp Acquires Skybility
Remote Notes:
Deployment Guide: The Five ‘C’s of M2M
Final Word:
M2M and the Realtime Enterprise
Of Minds and Machines:
Helping to Save Time
M2M solutions based on wireless modules help logistics providers meet ever-tighter delivery deadlines.
Dateline:
Pervasive Modules
May/June 2005
What's Up:
In Season
M2M’S Recent Flurry 0f Tradeshows Reveals Many Insights into the Direction of the Market.
What's Up:
Cardiac Monitor
Dateline:
Sensing Growth
Final Word:
A Disruptive Innovation
Remote Notes:
Beyond SCADA Systems: Sense and Respond
The world of SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) and telemetry is emerging from a legacy of proprietary, closed protocols and bandwidth-hungry poll-response systems.
Enabling Technologies:
Configure or Customize?
A guide to the options companies have for tailoring M2M to fit their needs.
Dateline:
Wireless Spending on the Rise
Dateline:
Wireless LAN to Triple
Dateline:
Adopter Class
Of Minds and Machines:
Exploration & Production
Machine-to-Machine Technology Can Dramatically Improve Operations in Oil and Gas.
Dateline:
Siemens, Oracle Partnership
Dateline:
Controlgen Acquired
Dateline:
Retail M2M
Dateline:
Aplicom Takes Over Nokia 12
Dateline:
Handset market
Dateline:
GSM and CDMA Growth
Winning Ways:
Asset Security
Power Tool Companies Use Machine-To-Machine Technology to Help Customers Protect Their Resources.
Of Minds and Machines:
M2M Enhances Security
The Security Industry Is Turning to M2M Communications to Stem the Epidemic of False Alarms.
First Look:
Bluetooth module for embedded apps
First Look:
Embedded RFID reader control device
First Look:
Modems with smart connection management
What's Up:
Global Expansion
First Word:
Behind the Scenes
M2M Strategies:
At Your Service
Machine-to- machine post-sales service creates new opportunities for recurring revenue and customer satisfaction.
What's Up:
Safe Kiosks
First Look:
Distribution and services landscape
First Look:
Device servers break the cellular barrier
First Look:
Carriers climb onboard with M2M partners
What's Up:
Unified Facilities
March/April 2005
Dateline:
RFID Takeoff
Dateline:
M2M Gaining Momentum
What's Up:
Time Saver
Enabling Technologies:
External Hardware
A Guide To Terminals, External Modems, Device Servers, And I/O Systems.
First Look:
A paradigm shift for wireless developers
What's Up:
Sign In
Enabling Technologies:
Energy and M2M
The Practice Of Monitoring Energy Usage Enters A New ERA and That Bodes Well For The Prospects of Reducing Energy Costs.
Dateline:
India’s Lessons for ARPU
Dateline:
P&G and Gillette Wed
Final Word:
Wireless Sensor Networking: The Micromeshes Are Coming
First Look:
Enfora adds Java capability to modules
First Word:
Putting M2M to the Test
What's Up:
Evaluation Kits
What Started As A Study Of Sensor Networking Technology Turned Into A Quest For Revenge.
What's Up:
Patient Tracking
What's Up:
Danish Network
What's Up:
Mobile Medical Records
What's Up:
Lottery Update
What's Up:
Safety Measures
What's Up:
Ocean Monitoring
What's Up:
Engine Health
What's Up:
Long Distance Laundry
First Look:
Lantronix helps with managed service
First Look:
Modules and more from CriticalWireless
What's Up:
Where’s Fido?
First Look:
Flexibility in device-server technology
What's Up:
Say Cheese
Dateline:
European Broadband
Remote Notes:
Wireless Technology Choices: Emerging Options
In the world of wireless, there is no single technology that can be all things to all applications.
Dateline:
Attend or Be Left Behind
Of Minds and Machines:
“Non-Asset” Management
Using M2M Technology, Waste-Management Companies Can Optimize Disposal Schedules.
Of Minds and Machines:
Remote Eyes and Ears
New Remote-Monitoring Systems Leverage M2M Connectivity to Protect Business Assets.
Of Minds and Machines:
Smooth Running
Wireless Local-Area Network Technology Creates Savings in Fleet Operations.
First Look:
An alternative to remote telemetry units
What's Up:
Mine Safety
Winning Ways:
First Response
Team of developers creates new M2M technology for helping emergency responders at disaster sites.
Jan/Feb 2005
What's Up:
Water Management
Winning Ways:
Home Awareness
Eaton Corp., a multibillion-dollar industrial-equipment manufacturer, is adopting M2M technology as part of a major research and development effort around monitoring technology in the home.
What's Up:
NATO Track
M2M Strategies:
The Brains Behind M2M
Machine data is only as valuable as a company’s ability to use it. Here’s an overview of the M2M application infrastructure that makes it happen.
Dateline:
Leading Secure Funding
Of Minds and Machines:
Mesh Motor Monitoring
Wireless Mesh M2M Networks Can Determine Motor Health and Predict Failures.
First Word:
Global Adoption of M2M
Dateline:
Ember Gets $25 Million
Dateline:
Wireless M2M Takes Flight
Final Word:
M2M-Enabled Service Operations: Defining "Best-in-Class"
One of the most formidable challenges facing today’s service organizations that are embarking on M2M solutions is understanding where and how they compare...
First Look:
Rugged wireless device platform
Dateline:
RFID in Manufacturing
First Look:
Design, certification, and testing
Enabling Technologies:
Short-Range Wireless
A breakdown on how radio frequency identification, wireless local-area networks, Bluetooth, and ZigBee fit into the machine-to-machine technology puzzle.
What's Up:
Double Benefit
What's Up:
History Solutions
What's Up:
Knowing Your Space
What's Up:
Better Connections
What's Up:
Wireless Art
What's Up:
Pumping Up
What's Up:
Asset Tracking
First Look:
ZigBee products hit the market
First Look:
An old term for a new market
What's Up:
High Maintenance
Of Minds and Machines:
Crosstown Traffic
Wireless M2M Communications Can Help Transportation Departments Manage Growth.
Of Minds and Machines:
Energy Exceptions
Setting Parameters and Alarms Can Deliver Significant Energy Cost Savings.
Of Minds and Machines:
Value for Vending
Machine-to-Machine Technology Changes the Business Model for Vending Operators.
What's Up:
Network Connection
Launch of Cingular Spin-Off Figures to Boost Network Connectivity Options for Machine-to-Machine Adopters.
What's Up:
Smart Machines
What's Up:
How Humid?
What's Up:
Prepare to Stop
Dateline:
Rogers, Microcell Join Up
Remote Notes:
GSM and CDMA Modules: Design Flexibility
Most of the billions of machines around us have not been designed with M2M communication in mind, thus no de facto standards exist.
First Look:
A wireless local-area network alternative
First Look:
Keep an eye on the backhoe
Fall 2004
What's Up:
Location Messaging
What's Up:
Equipment Management
What's Up:
Executive Order
What's Up:
Fruit Express
What's Up:
Remote-Control Traffic Cones
First Look:
Avnet gets system developers on the FasTrac
M2M Strategies:
Which Way to M2M?
For adopters and system developers, having a deliberate strategy pays off for navigating through the opportunities of machine-to-machine technology.
What's Up:
Energy Watch
What's Up:
Paper-Maker Uptime
Dateline:
M2M in Healthcare to Soar
First Look:
Where M2M and e-business meet
Dateline:
Market Drivers: Wireless M2M
First Look:
Keeping an eye on what’s in the tank
First Look:
The early stages of a mesh network
Remote Notes:
M2M Deployment: Make it Easy!
Sometimes projects that seem the easiest turn out to be the hardest. On more than one occasion I’ve started an “afternoon project,” only to have the ordeal stretch halfway through the night.
First Look:
Alarm signals from network connections
First Look:
Wireless external device servers
Final Word:
Machine-to-Machine: Learning the Lessons of RFID
As data-based mobile communication networks proliferate, cellular M2M communications markets are maturing along with them.
Dateline:
Zigbee to Explode by 2006
Dateline:
Energy Efficiency
Of Minds and Machines:
Port Security
Sensor Mesh Networking Technology Vastly Improves Potential for Logistics Security
Of Minds and Machines:
Trains on Track
Machine-to-Machine Technology Enables Performance Monitoring of U.K. Rail Systems.
What's Up:
The Mindset Shift
Part of the M2M Transformation Is Realizing that New Things Are Possible with Better Access to Machine Data.
What's Up:
Boat Patrol
What's Up:
Road Service
What's Up:
Trucks & Engines
What's Up:
Equipment Watch
First Word:
M2M Transformation
Summer 2004
Dateline:
M2M Partners
Dateline:
TLAs, FLAs, and more
Remote Notes:
M2M Technology and Network Latency
Many M2M technology users are quickly discovering that employing LAN (local-area network) and WAN (wide-area network) technology as a data communications vehicle doesn’t automatically guarantee timely point-to-point throughput, which can be a crucial element in time-dependent applications.
Dateline:
M2M to $31 Billion in 2008
Dateline:
Buildings Go Wireless
Dateline:
RFID in Manufacturing?
M2M Strategies:
EAM & M2M
When you mix M2M technology with the ideas and techniques of EAM software, you get new ways for managing assets across a whole range of different industries.
Final Word:
Choosing the Leader for Your Extended Internet
First Look:
End-to-end machine-to-machine
What's Up:
Lottery Tickets
First Look:
Mission control for building automation
First Look:
Condition monitoring software
What's Up:
Diamond Mine Data
First Look:
Let technology do the tedious work
Of Minds and Machines:
Fleet Control
Preventive Maintenance and Tracking for Commercial Equipment Can Deliver Major Benefits.
Of Minds and Machines:
Waste Busters
Companies Can Reduce Costs by Making Energy Waste “Visible” Through M2M Solutions.
What's Up:
Porta-Point-of-Sale
What's Up:
Meter Automation
What's Up:
What Makes M2M M2M?
To Tell What Is and Isn’t M2M, Remember that All M2M Applications Have One Thing in Common: Machine Data.
Enabling Technologies:
Which Wireless?
There are several ways to send machine data over a wireless network, but picking the right protocol doesn’t have to be a gamble.
First Word:
Facilitating Change
First Look:
Membership has its privilidges
First Look:
Precision distance and presence sensing
Spring 2004
Dateline:
Wireless M2M to Soar
M2M Strategies:
Seizing the Day
Success with M2M means listening to the customer and following the right roadmap.
Winning Ways:
Diagnosis: Cutting Edge
Medical-device company turns machine-to-machine application into customer-service innovation.
Dateline:
Bundled Solution...
First Word:
Listen to Your Customers
Dateline:
Is AT&T Initiative in Jeopardy?
Remote Notes:
M2M Technology and Regulatory Compliance
Often overlooked in a cost/benefit analysis of implementing M2M technologies is the positive impact...
First Look:
A kit for embedded intelligence
Of Minds and Machines:
One-Hour Photo
M2M Connectivity for Digital Photo-Finishing Lab Systems Helps Manufacturers Improve Service.
What's Up:
Ethernet Magic
What's Up:
RFID Update
First Look:
The king of the carriers
First Look:
Wireless embedded device servers
First Look:
Smart sensors for structural health
First Look:
The hardware bar gets raised again
What's Up:
Who Invented M2M?
We’re Hunting down the Origin of the Term M2M, and to Find it, We’re Not Leaving Any Stone Unturned.
Final Word:
Machine-to-Machine Creates Service-Based Revenue Models
One of the most exciting aspects of M2M technology is how it can help create new service-based revenue for the companies deploying it.
Enabling Technologies:
Move Over SCADA, Here comes M2M
With advances in technology we are beginning to understand how monitoring remote assets can facilitate new revenue models, lead to dramatic cost reductions, and will drive enhanced customer service initiatives.
First Look:
E-business to smart machines
What's Up:
First Response
What's Up:
Cardiac Telemetry
Winter 2003
Dateline:
M2M Intelligence
Dateline:
Market Metrics
Final Word:
The Power of M2M Lies in the options it provides
As the father of the assembly line, Henry Ford is recognized as a pioneer for innovating manufacturing processes, many of which are the precursors to modern-day M2M implementations.
Dateline:
Showing Wares and Knowledge
Dateline:
Network Connectivity Growing
What's Up:
Water Control
Dateline:
Map it, Track it
First Look:
SensorLogic cuts M2M development time
First Look:
A network designed with machines in mind
First Look:
Embedded hardware with a high I.Q.
First Look:
Remote monitoring on a budget
First Look:
From data to voice, all bases covered
Dateline:
M2M is Here to Stay
What's Up:
Border Patrol
M2M has a broad range of applications across different industries, but how far does it actually reach?
Dateline:
M2M Wireless Automation
What's Up:
Printing Problems
Enabling Technologies:
Creating a M2M Supply chain
With machine-to-machine technology, companies can create a network of retail, distribution facilities, and manufacturing processes.
What's Up:
Operator on Board
What's Up:
Land Cellular
Of Minds and Machines:
The Next Blackout
Machine-to-Machine Technology Can Help Companies Avoid another Power Shortage Crisis.
Of Minds and Machines:
Paying Without Cash
M2M connectivity solutions on public networks can make wireless commerce a reality.
What's Up:
All-in-One
What's Up:
Incident Command
What's Up:
Facility Network
What's Up:
Service Efficiency
What's Up:
Marine Terminals
What's Up:
RFID Leader
What's Up:
Jobsite Generators
What's Up:
Quality Control
First Look:
End-to-end remote-asset monitoring
First Word:
The Roots of M2M
Winning Ways:
Making Cool Connections
M2M connectivity leads to better product performance and customer service for carrier.
What's Up:
Gas Watch
Remote Notes:
Choosing Between CDMA and GSM
Choosing the right network technology is not a decision based merely on module selection and hardware price.
M2M Strategies:
From the Top
An inside look at where to start when you are looking to deploy an M2M solution.
Cover Story:
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Fall 2003
Dateline:
Defining M2M
First Look:
A camera, a phone, and piece of mind
What's Up:
On-Call Water Meters
Dateline:
People, Devices, Systems
First Look:
Wavecom goes M2M with WISMO Quik
Dateline:
Giving Service a Kick
What's Up:
Fixed Wireless
First Word:
M2M: A Community of Always-On machines
What's Up:
Cell Tower Patrol
First Look:
The same technology in a whole new light
What's Up:
Wal-Mart Nixes RFID Trial
Winning Ways:
BioLab M2M Takes Over Water Service
Discover how realtime visibility into supply chain facilitates better delivery of products.
Enabling Technologies:
Diving into M2M
No matter how it’s applied, M2M is all about enabling the flow of data between machines and IT systems. And regardless of the type of machine or the nature of the data, information usually flows in the same general sequence—from a machine over a network, and then through a gateway to an IT system.
What's Up:
Cold Ice, Hard Return
Dateline:
Invisible Mobile’s Adoption
What's Up:
Rail Diagnostics
What's Up:
Carrier Extends Fleet Control
First Look:
Kyocera enters M2M with a bang
First Look:
A new option: your very own WAN
Dateline:
Network Capabilities
Dateline:
Mark Your Calendars
Dateline:
Pervasive Internet
First Look:
Two carriers, two rate plans
What's Up:
Meter-Reading Acquisition
What's Up:
“Enormous Practical Benefits”
What's Up:
Going Up
Of Minds and Machines:
M2M Fuels Oil and Gas
Wireless M2M is proving to be successful in reducing the costs of oil and gas production.
Of Minds and Machines:
Building Better Security
Enterprises can combine all security functions into a single user interface.
Of Minds and Machines:
M2M Mitigates Risk
With M2M, collateral recovery companies can retrieve stolen or lost vehicles.
Of Minds and Machines:
Talking Behind the Scenes
Systems from gas dispensers to refrigeration can all be monitored and controlled remotely.
Remote Notes:
Successful M2M implementation 101
M2M projects are complex. There is really no way around it. They almost always involve multiple partners and a variety of technologies.
First Word:
Here Comes M2M
Cover Story:
Dispelling the Myth
M2M is not just another application for cellphones and PDAs; it's a breakthrough in communication technology that lets companies tap the intelligence stored away in their assets and use it to reduce costs, improve customer service, and create new revenue opportunities.
What's Up:
Mobile Surveillance
What's Up:
Hospital Control
M2M Strategies:
Don't Slip...
The first step on the path to a successful M2M initiative is identifying the right opportunities, and the key to success is having a clear strategy for managing information.
Dateline:
Telematics Goes for a Drive
What's Up:
Fight the Hype
What's Up:
Crisis Workflow
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