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Vodafone foresees ‘trillions’ of connected devices and has provided machine-to-machine connectivity for its customers around the world

Cisco recently published some research that showed an expected growth rate for mobile data traffic of 26-fold in the next four years, largely due to the growth in mobile video.

Smart cars, smart homes, smart grids – the world is getting serious about energy conservation and environmental protection,

Beyond the existing billion of PCs, tablets and mobile phones, more and more devices embed communication capabilities. Soon there will be more machines communicating with each others than humans! This is the hidden world…

Every now and then an industry pauses, gathers itself like a new wave and surges forward with greater power than ever before. Technological advances and evolving business models seem to mean

Billions and billions of machines, chattering away to each other; playing a role in every facet of our lives, our business and our communications; further accelerating the consumption of network bandwidth.

Richard Feynman, Nobel-Prize-winning physicist and all-round genius, gave a seminal paper back in 1959, There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom, which is now widely seen as heralding the birth of nanotechnology.

It is an exciting time to be involved in smart grid, says Amy Cooke, Strategic Business Development Director at Cable&Wireless Worldwide. At the time of writing, there are a number of positive stories on the subject:

The M2M market encompasses a number of unique industries and devices, one of the fastest-growing being the global automotive market. Forecasts predict that every vehicle manufactured by 2020 will be connected.