Telefonica Digital

London, UK – A report commissioned by Telefónica Digital, in partnership with Navigant Research, has revealed that while smart meters are here to stay, uptake globally is at vastly varying stages. Utilities and technology providers alike must prepare for a market plateau which is expected to occur after 2018.

With any new and fast-developing technology area, definitions and future growth paths often get blurred as everyone sees things from their own often narrowly-focused perspectives. As Alun Lewis says, this is critical in our space where concepts like the ‘Internet of Things’ or ‘Smart Cities’ often mean different things to different people.

Tele2 AB is launching new services in M2M. Its initial target markets are Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands, but Tele2 M2M Global Solutions is already able to serve customers globally. At the same time, ORBCOMM Inc. has struck a deal with Telefonica Digital enabling it to offer Telefonica’s GSM cellular communications service for M2M applications

(BLOG) — The forecasts are impossible to ignore; the connected car industry is about to take off, writes Telefónica Digital’s Pavan Mathew. Recent research suggests that by 2022 there will be 1.8 billion automotive M2M connections in cars across the world. This will comprise 700 million connected cars and 1.1 billion aftermarket devices for services

Telefónica Digital announced a partnership with FeedHenry to provide enterprise customers with a one-stop shop for creating, managing and securely integrating mobile apps, hosted in the cloud

Telefónica Digital today unveils Smart M2M, a best-in-class web-based platform for the connectivity, management and control of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications

At the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona Telefónica Digital presents a Smart City solution based on the company’s M2M capacities. It is an offering which will allow municipal corporations, urban service providers and entrepreneurs from worldwide to integrate in a single scalable, flexible and self-managing solution the complex environment of necessary sensors and

London, UK. October 25, 2012 – Telefónica Digital has today presented ‘Thinking Things’, a “simple solution currently under development which connects almost any device wirelessly to the internet”.

London, UK. September 11, 2012. Telefónica Digital and ‘La Caixa‘, have announced a joint investment of EUR3 million in addFleet, a company specialised in intelligent transport systems.

London, UK. 06 July 2012 – Telefónica, which operates under the O2 brand in the UK, has agreed to further extend the partnership with G4S Utility Services (G4S) a leading international security solutions group and one of the UK’s major smart meter operations service providers.

Madrid, Spain & Istanbul, Turkey. April 11, 2012 – Telefónica, through its Telefónica Digital unit, and the Turkish mobile operator Avea, part of Turk Telekom group, have agreed jointly to develop business opportunities in M2M.

01 March 2012, Mobile World Congress, Barcelona,- Telefónica, through its recently created unit Telefónica Digital, and China Unicom, with the collaboration of Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), have proven a secure, pre-standard system for remotely managing M2M SIMs subscription data based on the principles of the embedded SIM.

Telefonica and China Unicom have announced that they intend to collaborate along the entire M2M value chain, from the development of standards to the joint development of end-to-end M2M vertical products

Telefonica has set up a digital services unit combining areas such as e-health, cloud and M2M.