ABI Insight

M2M Application Development Platform Market in a State of Flux

Author: Sam Lucero, Practice Director, M2M & Embedded

Published: 14 Apr 2009

Two trends are currently underway in the M2M industry: 1) the facilitation of easier application development by corporate customers in a shift away from third-party application development; and 2) the deployment of application development tools by technology vendors at different levels of the M2M value chain. To this end, Numerex, a provider of cellular connectivity to the M2M industry, introduced its Foundation Application Software Technology (FAST) application development platform in January 2009. The introduction of such a platform is indicative of the changes occurring in the industry. This Insight examines these trends and the impact they are having on the M2M vendor landscape.

The full text of this Insight is available to subscribers of the M2M Research Service and the Wireless Connectivity Research Service.

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