ABI Insight

After the Crisis: The Current State of the Cellular M2M Market

Author: Sam Lucero, Practice Director, M2M & Embedded

Published: 14 Oct 2010

The cellular Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market is one aspect of an overall trend toward enabling everyday objects and devices to communicate with each other and with server-based application infrastructure. This over-arching trend has sometimes been called “The Internet of Things” and, in its broadest sense, includes a multitude of technologies and applications, including RFID, wireless sensor networking, industrial & building control systems, home automation, and the Smart Grid. Clearly, cellular technology offers significant benefits, particularly around mobility and ease of WAN connectivity, for a multitude of M2M use cases. How has the cellular M2M market fared during the global economic crisis? What are its current key market and technology developments? What are future trends and opportunities?

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