What is M2M?

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) is simply the communication between devices or machines. Communications can be wired or wireless, and enabled through after-market or embedded technologies.  These devices communicate with each other and enterprise applications to provide insight into the physical world.  Smart Services solutions, the application of M2M communications, are delivered by adding intelligence to deliver new services and business models.  M2M is a rapidly emerging category, the next phase of the wireless phenomenon that will impact nearly every facet of communications, our personal lives, and the human experience.

The Next Wireless Revolution

The origin of M2M is not clear – when did cellular technology first begin to connect things?  One example of early use, before M2M was even defined, is Qualcomm’s OmniTRACS solution, released in 1989, which wirelessly connected truck drivers to their dispatch centers, revolutionizing the trucking industry.

Fast forward to 2010.  The M2M market is at an inflection point as users become more aware of the opportunities this offers to their businesses to drive new competitive advantages and revenue streams. Nearly any machine can be M2M enabled and there has been an explosion of connected devices, including eBook readers, wireless diagnostic heart monitors, connected personal navigation devices and others.  Connecting remote devices, machines and assets offers new ways to compete in almost any business sector, including on and off-road telematics, consumer products, utilities, retail, healthcare, industrial equipment and others.

Transforming Business

nPhase understands the needs of companies looking to implement M2M. We have a long track record of helping companies understand and realize business benefits from M2M. M2M offers transformative business models and services that immediately improve the management of physical assets, dramatically increase efficiency, enhance performance and competitiveness, drive greater revenues, and ultimately create vast new opportunities.

What wireless technology has done for human communications nPhase is now doing for machines, products and devices. As a driving force behind the mainstream adoption of M2M technologies, nPhase is the equation that will redefine the way companies interact with their customers and do business.