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Advanced electricity meters with integrated cellular communications modules are forecast to increase from 2.6 million shipments in 2010 to 9.5 million shipments annually in 2016, according to a report from IMS Research.

London, UK. 10 October, 2011 – Machina Research, global advisors on M2M and mobile broadband, have published a new report, M2M Global Forecast & Analysis 2010-20. It provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the global opportunity for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications.

The world market for telehealth is set to exceed US$1bn by 2016 and could jump to $6bn in 2020, according to a report from InMedica, the medical electronics market research group within IMS Research.

London, UK – Machine-to-machine (M2M) software platforms and services, once deployed as proprietary technologies, are no longer sufficient in the growing market, according to analyst firm Frost & Sullivan.

The cellular M2M embedded module market experienced a more difficult than expected 2010, according to a report from ABI Research.

China is expected to deploy 280 million smart meters by 2016, according to research by In-Stat.

The market for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) will grow rapidly from US$0.45bn in 2011 to $2bn in 2021, according to a report from IDTechEx.

The number of connected devices in the M2M market will grow to 82.5 million by 2016, according to a report from Atlantic-ACM.

The next-generation M2M and connected device market in the USA will reach 87 million endpoints by 2015, with a compound annual growth rate of over 25%, according to a report from Compass Intelligence.

The worldwide smart meter revenue will surpass US$12bn in 2016 with Zigbee the early technology leader, according to a report from In-Stat.

Smart metering will account for over 40% of the 400 million M2M connected devices by 2016, according to a Juniper Research report.

The machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless network services market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 27 per cent from 2010 to 2014, according to a report by Technavio.

The market for mobile phone biometric security products and services is set to grow significantly over the next five years, according to a report from Goode Intelligence.

The number of new smart home installations worldwide was 0.44 million in 2010 and is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 65%, according to a research report by Berg Insight.

The number of mobile money subscribers in emerging markets is forecasted to grow from 133 million users in 2010 at a compound annual growth rate of 40% to reach 709 million users in 2015, according to a report from Berg Insight.

Revenue streams in areas such as cloud, M2M and mobile financial services could save mobile network operators (MNOs) from a “nightmare” scenario, according to a report from Juniper Research.