It goes by many names these days: Machine-to-machine communications; the Internet of Things; the Industrial Internet; even just “wireless sensors.” In short, M2M is the technology that enables the automated exchange of key information between machines, and then ultimately to humans.
With seemingly endless applications that range from mere entertainment (say, streaming video to the backseat of your car) to matters of life and death (like the ability for doctors to remotely monitor blood glucose levels), M2M technology is already rapidly changing the way that we live for the better. The M2M revolution is threatened, however, by two crucial and already pressing challenges: unnecessary complexity and the impending sunset of 2G wireless.
To read the original article: The two things that could doom the ‘Internet of things’ revolution — Tech News and Analysis
