Wouldn’t it be nice if M2M applications came with a user manual? A simple, straightforward, and preferably illustrated guide showing how to connect assets to networks and integrate resulting machine data into business applications.
From its earliest roots as ‘telemetry’, machine-to-machine communications has grown to become not merely a new technology but an entirely new concept for doing business. And as our society’s demand for mobility and access to data continues to grow, companies are finding ingenious new ways to integrate wireless connectivity into their devices.
But like all new things, there may be confusion on how to proceed for your business. So we offer the accompanying articles, each from a different point-of-view.
The first is a step-by-step guide to M2M deployment. It helps define the current state of best-practices on the part of the M2M industry to help potential adopters to get their applications off the ground and take some of the complexity out of M2M.
The second is a complete case history of how just one innovative company partnered with Sprint to power their ideas and become a leader in their industry.
At the end of the day, there are two sides of the fence: adopters and providers – and both need to understand M2M best practices… step by step.