M2M Technology Advances Healthcare System

Guest post by LeadingQuest.
In this time and age of digital technology, changes in almost every aspect of human life are inevitable. Technology in itself is constantly evolving everyday. Inventions, new and better products are introduced to the market every now and then. The Healthcare system is no exception.
Although, most medical equipments today still work as individual units, and medical practitioners and technicians still need to collaborate to generate a report on one specific aspect of a patient’s health. Often times, they would have to manually operate systems, devices and machines to generate the results. This whole tedious process does not only entail a lot of work, but requires a significant amount of time.
Fortunately, the healthcare industry has realized this inefficiency in the system and is slowly adapting to new technologies that can incredibly improve healthcare. Healthcare providers are now turning to Machine-to-machine technology, also known as E-Health, to provide more cost-efficient, reliable and enhanced services to their patients. As a result of the rapidly escalating cost of medical expenses, as well as Health Care reforms, particularly in the US and other countries adapting to a similar structure, medical providers and facilities decided to strengthen the role of connected health devices in delivering better healthcare services.
A report from Machina Research examined the impact of the possible adoption of technology that utilizes machine to machine connectivity to the healthcare sector, its viable outcomes and implications. Author of the new Sector Report Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications in Healthcare 2013-23 and Machina Research Principal Analyst, Andy Castonguay said that:
“In a country like the United States, with healthcare spending nearing 20% of national GDP, M2M technology may well provide the single most promising approach to expanding health care services in a cost effective manner.”
“While the cost dynamics of healthcare are a key factor driving innovation in the field, connected health devices and applications are also proving to be a key element in improving patient engagement and health.”
LeadingQuest CEO, Clovis Lacerda agrees with Mr. Castonguay in this view. According to Mr. Lacerda, M2M Technology is the best way to advance the healthcare system and eliminate problems such as long waiting periods. It would also be very cost-efficient for healthcare providers and can save them millions of dollars. Providing M2M Healthcare Solutions is one of the primary services that LeadingQuest and Parlacom Brazil offers to its clients. These are customized M2M E-Health solutions and applications that have been effectively used in care facilities. He further mentioned that Parlacom Brazil is enhancing their services, and is looking into investing more in this area to increase sales force.
From the same report from Machina Research, M2M connected devices for the healthcare sector is anticipated to hit 847 billion by 2023. In this report, North America will be the largest, reaching 386 million connections, followed by Europe and developed countries in Asia Pacific. And the Healthcare industry will generate a total revenue of $90.9 billion from M2M technology.
Source: Machina Research
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Samsung Launches Major Digital Health Initiative

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today launched a bold initiative aimed at directing the resources and innovation of the global technology industry toward empowering individuals to better manage their own health and wellness.
The Samsung Digital Health Initiative is based on open hardware and software platforms that will accelerate the development of advanced sensors, algorithms, and data collection and analysis.
At an event at San Francisco’s SFJAZZ Center today, Samsung’s Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC) team demonstrated its open platform in a wearable wristband form factor, showing how devices based on this reference-design “blueprint” could be used to track measurements such as heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure. The company also demonstrated its open software architecture and how it could be used to collect data from a variety of sources, aggregate it and display it in a format allowing consumers to better understand what is taking place within their bodies.
The open platforms, combined with agreements like the one recently announced by Samsung and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to validate new technologies for personal health and wellness, are designed to help entrepreneurs bring innovative products to market more quickly.
“Samsung’s Digital Health Initiative provides an exciting opportunity for the brightest minds in the technology world to come together to develop the products that will, for the first time, put individuals in the driver’s seat in understanding their own health and wellness,” said Young Sohn, president and chief strategy officer, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics.
“At a time when healthcare spending is at record levels and when the number of people over the age of 60 worldwide is expected to exceed more than 1.2 billion by 2025, digital health is an incredibly important area for innovation. We believe this initiative is an essential first step and we invite developers and partners across the globe to join us in creating the technologies of the future that will help make people’s lives healthier.”
Technology Highlights

Open Hardware Platform: Samsung’s Simband is an open hardware reference design for wearable technology, capable of integrating the most advanced sensing technologies in the world. Simband is being designed in a modular way, allowing for innovation in areas like battery life, form factor and noninvasive sensor technology. Innovators are invited to use the reference platform to create and contribute their own advanced sensors, algorithms and other technologies. Simband is a reference design Samsung and third-parties will use to develop products. It will not be sold commercially. This approach is intended to lead to the creation of ecosystems for hardware and algorithms that will enable new technology to be easily incorporated into finished products.
Open Software Architecture: The Samsung Architecture for Multimodal Interactions (SAMI) will be a cloud-based open software platform capable of bringing together diverse data from a variety of sources for analysis. It will allow devices and sensors to securely store data in the cloud regardless of the source’s format or structure. SAMI’s job is to make more information available, to break open information silos and give applications and services access to large amounts of data to provide better insights. Under Samsung’s approach, SAMI will allow data to be controlled by the individual generating it and not by third-parties, so that personal health data can be better protected.

The combination of Simband-designed sensor technologies and algorithms and SAMI-based software will take individual understanding of the body to a new level – for the first time giving voice to a deeper understanding of personal health and wellness. In addition, through the development of new sensing technologies and software, it’s possible that entirely new and previously unimagined insights into health and wellness could be generated.
Dr. Michael Blum, associate vice chancellor for informatics at UCSF, said:
“Our bodies have always had something to say but now, with advanced sensors, algorithms and software, we will finally be able to tune into what the body is telling us.”
“Validation of these technologies will improve the quality of data collected and help advance the ability to bring new products to market quickly. UCSF is pleased to play an important role in this effort to focus increased technology resources on digital health.”
To support its Digital Health Initiative, Samsung today also announced the Samsung Digital Health Challenge, a $50 million investment fund dedicated to innovative start-ups and technologies in the digital health area. The goal of the fund is to stimulate creative new approaches to digital health and Samsung’s open platforms. Additional information about the Samsung Digital Health Challenge may be found at www.samsung.com/ssic.
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ViaSat Brings Innovation to Satellite Machine to Machine Communications

New high-capacity waveform designed for greater performance and lower cost of ownership in a small form factor.
To provide L-band satellite customers with a fresh alternative to today’s antiquated technologies, ViaSat Inc. is launching a new worldwide network service for the machine to machine (M2M) market. Similar to its innovation in broadband services, ViaSat is focused on creating a more economically favorable system designed to provide higher speeds, greater security, and faster response to small fixed and mobile terminals. The ViaSat L-band Managed Service is enabled by technologies that provide a new combination of features for Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) that is expected to lower the cost of ownership for M2M networking.
The new service introduces an innovative new waveform optimized for M2M that leverages ViaSat’s extensive experience in serving U.S. government customers with highly secure, reliable, and rugged satellite-based global services. Operating over the highest performance L-band satellites, the ViaSat technology uses satellite bandwidth more efficiently to bring a number of performance differentiators to a variety of customers in the energy, utilities, logistics, and enterprise sectors:

High availability
Integrated security
Broadcast and multicast
Low latency
Netted voice

“The agreements we’ve just completed with LightSquared and Thuraya signal the launch of our worldwide MSS services,” said Phil Berry, VP MSS at ViaSat.
“In the same way that we transformed satellite broadband, we’re bringing innovation to this market with a focus on constantly improving system economics while enabling an order of magnitude performance improvement over comparable M2M legacy systems. We are developing a range of fixed and mobile devices to deliver the service for a variety of applications.”
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Wearable Technology: The Convergence of Fashion and Technology

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By LeadingQuest
With the M2M technology rapidly evolving and wearable electronics is taking their significant place in this process, the convergence of wearable technology and consumer electronics is inevitable.
Wearables has greatly influenced consumer electronics market, driven by the increase in demand for electronic devices that help improve fitness and health.
These wearable electronics are generating much success in the healthcare sector as they can collect critical information from the patients which will not only benefit the patient itself but health care professionals and providers. The most common wearable health electronics in the market today are smart wristbands, smart watches that help monitor patient’s heart rate. Other more advance inventions such as electronic contact lenses that has microchips and glucose sensors to monitor blood sugar levels, and biostamp temporary tattoos used to monitor patients remotely without the hassle of being strapped to a machine for hours. Imagine how these devices has altered the face of healthcare. Wearable technology and electronics are, with no doubt, remarkably reshaping the near future.
But what does the fashion industry have to say to this? Pretty much, the fashion industry dictates the trends in how people look. However, the fashion industry is now slowly adopting a new concept that people will start wearing clothes not just to look good but to communicate. For people who loves to be fashionable and trendy and not necessary fitness-crazed, wearables such as Samsung Galaxy Gear Fit may be a good way to keep up with the trends in wearable electronics. Unquestionable, the fashion industry not only dictates the trends, it also dictates the consumers’ desires and their spending habit, thus the new smart fabric technFology market has emerged, where smart textiles are now becoming widely recognized.
However, there are still issues on its full integration as both fashion and electronics need to avoid getting into a compromise, sacrificing aesthetics and functionality. Ultimately, a product has to look fashionable and cutting edge for consumers to really buy it.
Clovis Lacerda, CEO of LeadingQuest and Parlacom Brazil, when asked about the company’s stand on this fast growing trend, said:
“Let’s face it, fashion trends are being digitized while gadgets are getting more fashionable. The convergence is inevitable since the already thin line between technology and fashion is getting thinner with various wearable technologies emerging in the market, giving not just consumers the options on what to buy, but providing developers and providers as well a much wider scope and area to expand as far as increasing sales force on vertical markets is concerned.”
“That is why we are looking at expanding on those markets in the very near future.” He further added.
Although, the fashion industry has made quite a statement on the possibility of converging fashion and technology with Nicole Scherzinger’s twitter dress and Black Eyed Peas members wearing LEDs and OLEDs on their costumes at “The Beginning” Tour in Paris, the evolution of wearable technology has just begun…
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Software AG Unveils New Internet of Things Solution Accelerator

An Essential Starter Kit for Any CIO Considering the Internet of Things or Software Companies Needing a Jumpstart.
Software AG today unveiled its Internet of Things (IoT) Solution Accelerator, a tightly-bundled set of smart tools that help business leaders gain actionable insights from different, disparate data sources in real-time enabling them to make better business decisions.
The new Software AG IoT Solution Accelerator enables data analysts to quickly and easily visualize and analyse the performance of their devices individually or together. It also allows the rapid development of “Smart Systems” that respond in real-time to patterns in event and sensor data.
The IoT Solution Accelerator comprises and combines five essential components:

(1) out-of-the-box real-time, advanced streaming analytics;
(2) Universal, low latency messaging;
(3) in-memory processing of hundreds of terabytes of data;
(4) real-time HTML5 dashboards that run anywhere in portals, websites, Microsoft SharePoint and all mobile devices, and
(5) end-to-end security, including secure sharing outside the corporate firewall.

The IoT Solution Accelerator includes connectors to popular IoT providers such as Axeda’s Machine Streams and AT&Ts M2M platform. Additionally, it includes a Project Development Kit (PDK) and a solution guide. The PDK contains developer tools comprising frameworks, templates, customizable user interfaces, etc. All the pieces needed to quickly install and run the application are included. There is also documentation and source-code based intellectual property provided to kick-start developers to customize or even extend the Solution Accelerator capabilities.
John Crupi, Vice President of Visual Analytics, Software AG, said:
“We are witnessing a massive explosion with the interconnection of things as more physical objects become embedded with sensors, actuators and devices to gain the ability to collect data and communicate. Forward-thinking companies are already recognizing the potential benefits of a global system of internet-connected things, but struggle with the challenge of how they can manage, control, and act upon the anticipated tsunami of data and events that all this will undoubtedly create.”

“The Software AG Internet of Things Solution Accelerator simplifies the tasks necessary to store, visualize and use the growing connectivity and influx of data.”
Dan Shey, Practice Director, ABI Research, noted:
“The challenge will not always be about the volume of data, but the different technologies needed to gather, store and analyze the data. Nowadays, new database technologies are often built on Hadoop, but it is not designed and hence is slow for real-time analyses. By leveraging in-memory database technologies, data access and event processing is lightening fast allowing insight generation in real time. With connections reaching nearly 24 billion ‘things’ by 2020, the resulting incremental information promises to shape new business models, drive business process efficiencies, and help reduce costs and risks.”
Only the Software AG IoT Solution Accelerator helps companies build an integrated, comprehensive platform for the entire IoT infrastructure with robust, end-to-end security. A unique feature of the IoT Solution Accelerator is its capability to combine both real-time data and historical data at the same time. This delivers actionable, contextual information that enables business analysts to identify opportunities or threats as they occur and act upon them.
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The Internet of Pigs is set to fly

1248 Internet of Things technology helps General Alert improve animal health and provide early warning of disease.
General Alert (GA), a pioneer in the use of sensors and monitoring technology on farms, is working with Internet of Things (IoT) specialist 1248 to improve the welfare of pigs, poultry and other livestock and provide early warning of transmitted diseases. GA is using 1248’s new Geras IoT database and publishing solution to collect data from multiple sensors including temperature, drinking water flow and animal feed rate, humidity, CO2 concentration, ammonia and pH. GA even uses in-vivo RFID and temperature tags planted in pigs, effectively turning a pig into a ‘thing’ on the Internet of Things.
This will be the first time agricultural environments and the behaviour of animals have been measured on this scale and in such detail, to manage productivity, health and wellbeing and improve operational efficiency. And by monitoring on a national and international level, the technology will be able to provide early warning of diseases such as foot-and-mouth, which can cause devastating livestock and financial loss.
Like most Internet of Things solutions, the GA system uses a very large number of sensors, each collecting thousands or millions of readings via the mobile phone network or internet, which need to be stored and queried to provide meaningful and useful information. For example, a change in drinking behaviour could indicate illness or source of animal stress that can be resolved quickly.
“Rising global population and standards of living are increasing the pressure on food-animal production, which leads to an increased requirement to manage animal productivity, health and wellbeing effectively,” said Chris Dodge, IT Director at General Alert.
“Sensors, electronics and communications technologies have reached a price point that is making it possible to deploy IoT systems that deliver real commercial benefit and Geras is a core building block of our solution. We are already working closely with veterinary, agricultural research and farm management companies and looking to expand the range of applications.”
Geras is a generic, scalable IoT service – a piece of infrastructure which solves a common IoT problem based on open standards. It accepts data trickling in from many devices, stores it and then allows applications to quickly answer high-level questions from it.
“Geras is designed to allow companies like General Alert to focus on what they do best – in this case, developing and deploying livestock technology,” said Pilgrim Beart, CEO at 1248.
“Companies looking to rapidly harness the opportunities presented by the Internet of Things need to partner with experienced providers who understand how to build scalable architectures and are committed to open standards.”
As GA’s Chris Dodge added: “1248’s founders are well known in the IoT area, with a track record of successful companies, including sensor related work, which gave us the confidence to base aspects of our infrastructure on Geras.”

About 1248
1248 offers a range of expert services and off-the-shelf products to help companies connect their devices to the internet and rapidly build scalable IoT solutions. The company is also playing a leading role in creating the Hypercat open standard to enable IoT applications and services to work together automatically, as part of a project funded by the UK government’s Technology Strategy Board. For more information visit: http://1248.io
For more information about General Alert, please visit: http://www.general-alert.com/
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Telit m2mAIR Mobile to Deliver Global Out-of-the-Box 3G Connectivity to USRobotics Customers

USRobotics® Launches USR3500 Courier® M2M 3G Cellular Modem Leveraging m2mAIR Mobile Services.
Telit Wireless Solutions, a global provider of high-quality machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions, products and services and USRobotics, a Division of UNICOM® Global, today announced that the USRobotics new USR3500 Courier Cellular Modem will ship with out-of-the-box 3G connectivity and mobile value added services provided by Telit m2mAIR Mobile.
In January 2014, USRobotics introduced the USR3500 Courier M2M (Machine-To-Machine) 3G Cellular Modem, specifically developed for business customers. The Company’s latest addition to the Courier business modem product portfolio was designed to make cellular installations faster and more cost-effective with secure, reliable connections enhanced by quick and simple deployment delivered through the Core service infrastructure from Telit’s m2mAIR Mobile service group.
The Telit m2mAIR business unit is a critical element of the Telit “ONE STOP. ONE SHOP.” delivery model—making “The Internet of Things Plug & Play”, by delivering complete edge-to-cloud/enterprise connectivity, application enablement and value added services. The m2mAIR Mobile portfolio includes a tight knit set of services specifically designed to address all aspects of M2M device operation on mobile networks.
“The partnership with Telit m2mAIR provides our customers a quick and simple avenue for wireless services,” said Mary Galbavy, Director of Operations of USRobotics.
“With this packaged solution our customers, both large and small, can benefit from the partnerships with carriers around the world for considerable global reach.”
m2mAIR Mobile Core is the basic cellular connectivity offering by m2mAIR Mobile, offering standard and tailored rate plans plus access to the Company’s ePortal and Web services API for convenient management of customer accounts. Core services include rich functionality for activating and operating devices in mobile networks. Additional services from m2mAIR Mobile include Intelligence, designed to provide a quick and easy way to analyze the business performance of M2M deployments, and Aware, a monitoring and risk management service to provide a constant view of the behavior of an entire M2M deployment according to easily configurable APIs and rules.
“The USRobotics approach to simplifying the adoption of M2M devices is closely aligned with our mission to make The Internet of Things Plug & Play,” said AJ Dalola, General Manager of Telit m2mAIR Mobile North America.
“We’re pleased to support the unique differentiators of the USR3500, including the option for persistent connectivity as well as remote maintenance and control. Together Telit and USRobotics are lowering the entry barriers to a wide range of M2M solutions. As this is a product for business and mission critical applications, USRobotics can also leverage our 24/7 carrier-grade Network Operations Center (NOC) and other resources to add to their customers’ quality of experience they have come to expect from the USRobotics brand.”
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Whistle’s New GPS Capabilities and the First Network Dedicated to Internet of Things to Change the Landscape of Wireless Connectivity

Pet Technology Company Teams Up with SIGFOX to Ensure Dog Owners Never Lose Their Pets.
Whistle, the makers of the leading pet health and activity monitor, today introduced WhistleGPS, the next generation of its line of pet tech products. This device and connected mobile app will help ensure that dog owners in the U.S. can always find their pets. Harnessing the U.S. deployment of the SIGFOX network, the first wireless network dedicated to the internet of things, Whistle aims to prevent the loss of the roughly 10 million family pets that go missing annually.
“WhistleGPS offers pet owners peace of mind that they’ll never lose their best friend,” said Ben Jacobs, CEO of Whistle.
“Until now, GPS devices on the market simply didn’t make sense for most dog owners. Subscription costs are high, battery life is short, and products are too big for most breeds to even wear. By leveraging the SIGFOX network, we’re offering a GPS device that pet owners can use effortlessly, and be proud to put on their dog’s collar.”
WhistleGPS is a sleek device that attaches to a dog’s collar to collect and categorize key information, including location, activity and rest. Pet owners can use WhistleGPS to make sure their dogs are getting the right amount of daily activity and to pinpoint their dog’s exact location from their smartphone.
Unlike other GPS products on the market, WhistleGPS addresses three key challenges for location monitoring, including:

Size – At roughly the size of a silver dollar (16 grams), WhistleGPS is less than 1/3 the size of other available trackers, making it the smallest and lowest profile pet monitoring device on the market. This means more dogs of varying sizes will be able to wear the device comfortably.
Battery life – Leveraging brand new low-energy wireless network capabilities to communicate location, WhistleGPS is able to provide 2x the battery life than currently possible in other devices. This allows people to use their device for at least one week before needing to recharge the battery, for a better experience.
Affordability – Bypassing expensive wireless providers and connecting to the new internet of things ecosystem allows WhistleGPS to keep cost of subscriptions down to 1/2 current price of GPS services.

As the collaboration with Whistle demonstrates, the new low-energy network with SIGFOX addresses the widespread need for new wireless communication solutions. Current options for mobile connectivity only offer close-range syncing via Bluetooth and WiFi, or cumbersome and expensive 3G and 4G wireless systems. The introduction of the SIGFOX on-demand wireless network in the U.S. – timed for the end of this year – bridges the gap between the two current offerings and will unleash new opportunities for addressing connected home solutions, smart city grids, valuable asset tracking and much more.
Ludovic Le Moan, CEO of SIGFOX, said:
“WhistleGPS is a perfect example of how low-energy systems like ours open the door to innovation, especially within the internet of things sector.”
“As we approach the sunset date of older 2G networks, more products will be forced to evolve and iterate in months and years to come while enabling entirely new ones like WhistleGPS. The U.S. deployment of our wireless system is an exciting opportunity to usher in the new wave of connectivity and invention.”
Available for pre-order May 21 – 28, 2014
WhistleGPS is available for pre-order from May 21-28, 2014 for $49 (SRP $129) online at www.Whistle.com through a limited time offering powered by Crowdtilt Open. WhistleGPS will ship starting summer 2015.
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UK Consortium announces an open access, city scale Internet of Things network in Milton Keynes

A consortium of leading technology companies¹, including Neul and BT, have announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build a city-wide, open access demonstration network for Machine to Machine (M2M) communications and the Internet of Things (IoT), based on the Weightless™ communications standard.
The project will demonstrate the ability of a city-wide M2M infrastructure to cope with a large number of static and mobile sensors. Some of these will support use cases for Milton Keynes council, but the mission for the project is to attract many other innovators to use the infrastructure as a test bed for commercial applications, new products and services which need not be specific to Milton Keynes.
The technology is being supplied and managed by BT and Neul Ltd. Working with Milton Keynes Council, they will install a network of Weightless™ base stations to provide coverage across the city for low power, connected sensors.
Alan Ward, Head of Corporate ICT Practice at BT, said:
“We see this exciting project as a means of establishing an open innovation environment to support the creation of M2M and IoT applications across a whole city. This could include anything from intelligent monitoring of parking spaces in the city to networked bins which signal when they need collecting.”
“The project will showcase BT’s capability in managing network services for these applications which will be pivotal in making this initiative a success.”
“We’re excited to be announcing the first dedicated, city-wide network for the IoT here in the UK” said Stan Boland, CEO of Neul. “Neul’s low-power, open-access, wide-area network solution provides the key to unlocking a vast variety of new applications, previously impossible or uneconomical with existing communications technologies.”
“Milton Keynes is already known as a pioneer in the use of technology to make our city more efficient, as evidenced by the current MK:Smart project”, said Geoff Snelson, Director of Strategy at Milton Keynes Council.
“This agreement demonstrates our commitment to extending that to a city-wide level of access. As well as providing a test-bed for our own specific use cases, this will bring new innovation and business development to the city, creating an ecosystem of IoT development.”
The collaboration will deploy large numbers of IoT sensors over its eighteen month span as well as proving a range of different business models in a real world environment. It is intended that it will remain as a long term development environment and platform for IoT innovation, attracting global companies to Milton Keynes.

¹Connected Digital Economy Catapult, Future Cities Catapult, Milton Keynes Council and The Open University
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Mobile Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Module Market Nearly Doubling to $2.9 Billion by 2018

Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its latest Mobile M2M Modules report, which provides market share, market size, forecasts, analysis, and trends for mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) modules by technology, vertical, and region.
M2M analyst note
Godfrey Chua, directing analyst for M2M and The Internet of Things at Infonetics Research notes:
“The services built upon mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) modules, such as fleet management and connected car, are already a sizeable business and are growing much faster than traditional business lines. We look for the market to accelerate beginning in 2015 as M2M services inflect and module sales shift toward higher-ARPU 3G and 4G systems, ultimately just about doubling to $2.9 billion in 2018.”
Mobile M2M module market highlights

For the full year 2013, the global mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) module market totaled $1.4 billion, up 6% from the previous year
2G remains a key foundation, comprising the majority of units shipped in 2013, though with the shift toward broadband technologies, Infonetics expects 3G to grow to 67% of mobile M2M module revenue by 2018
LTE is the most dynamic and fastest-growing technology segment, with a 2013–2018 compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of a very robust 144%
North America and Europe are the key centers of mobile M2M module growth, but buoyed by significant investments in China, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, Asia Pacific is catching up and is expected to account for a third of total revenue by 2018
Sierra Wireless, Gemalto/Cinterion, and Telit dominate the M2M module space, together accounting for nearly two-thirds of total market revenue, with a combined total of almost a billion dollars in module sales
Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE are rising and creating intense pricing pressure in emerging markets in Asia and other parts of the world

M2M report synopsys:
Infonetics’ mobile M2M modules report provides worldwide and regional market size, market share, forecasts through 2018, analysis, and trends for mobile M2M modules (units, revenue, ARPU) by technology (GSM/GPRS/EDGE, CDMA2000/EV-DO, W-CDMA/HSPA, LTE, WiMAX) and vertical (utilities/smart grid, automotive/transport/logistics, security/surveillance, retail/vending, healthcare, other). Companies tracked: Gemalto/Cinterion, Sierra Wireless, Telit, Huawei, ZTE, and others.
The report includes a customer-wins tracker by manufacturer, including Gemalto/Cinterion, Novatel Wireless, Quake Global, Sierra Wireless, Telit, U-Blox. Service providers and enterprises noted include Aeris, Nex-Tech Wireless, SK Telecom, Sprint. To buy the report, contact Infonetics: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp.
Related report excerpts:

M2M service providers discuss strategy and name top platform vendors in Infonetics survey
As businesses turn to the IoT for growth, M2M WAN connections set to triple by 2018
Policy management now a $1 billion market, with mobile leading the way
APIs and M2M gold rush drive big spending in SDP market
Enterprises turning to machine-to-machine (M2M) services to get a leg up on competition

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