Applications of mobile products and services in traditional businesses
“customers” that will help o
dev
vercome the saturation of lines that has occurred in
profits for oper
eloped countries. M2M communications will be a v
and attr
ators who, with the right strategy, will be able to create rev
ery interesting source of
enue
ures from the CMT
act new customers with minimal cost and effort. In fact, according to fig-
in the first six months of 2008, bringing the total to 1.3 million lines. This is
, cards associated with machines registered 220,842 new lines
43.2% more than in June last year
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.
Internationally
rise to 186 million in 2012
, the number of M2M lines reached 37.5 million in 2007 and will
American market.
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, of which 20 million will be generated in the North
But how do M2M communications work? M2M is a technology that enables ma
chines to communicate with each other b
-
network according to the needs of this type of service, and ev
y adapting and configuring the mobile
platforms needed for it to be operated.
en provides the
One specific example of this technology is machine-to-mobile communications,
which consists of using a mobile handset to communicate, check on or monitor
the other machine b
tion by a simple SMS or through more complex interfaces.
y operating its SIM card. The handset can receive informa-
Network
Mobile
Figure 48. Machine-to-mobile communications oper
Source: Accenture, Machine to Mobile Proposition.
ation.
The machine-to-mobile communication system is based on a series of sensors
(such as a change in temper
inside the machine that, upon registering a v
ature, or a pipe’s w
ariation in the standard v
ater pressure, etc.), tr
alues
signal that gets stored in the control center or in the companies’ management
ansmit a
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T
2007 Annual report. Spain’s
systems, sending an alert to the mobile handset. Howev
Commission (CMT). June 2008.
elecommunications Market sage to be sent the machine must first establish a remote connection with the
er, in order for the mes-
http://www
electOption.do
.cmt.es/cmt_ptl_ext/S
.
serv
which pro
er. Gener
vides access to the mobile network for establishing the connection.
ally speaking, the machine must be equipped with a SIM card,
Article: “Mobile M2M connections
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Silicom.com. 6/05/2008.
These components in
on the up
solution is to create a communit
volve costs that must be taken into account. One possible
http://networks.silicon.com/mobil
.”
e/0,39024665,39213366,00.htm.
via Bluetooth and for these to send the information using the same system to a
y of machines that are connected to each other
master machine on which a SIM card is installed.
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