M2MSys®

M2M refers to data communications between machines which occur in an automated way that does not require human intervention. Its definition continues to evolve, but it generally refers to telemetry or telematics that is accomplished using networks, especially public wireless networks.

With the advent of digital age it started to be possible to relay messages of how a specific ELECTRONIC system was operating. In the 50 and 60s telemetry systems were the exclusive domain of very large well financed organizations such as NASA and the oil, gas and electric utilities, which developed their own dedicated data networks to monitor their expensive and geographically distributed infrastructure.

At the core of M2M is the ability to communicate electronic events. As the cost of access to public wireless data networks (CDMA, GPRS, Mobitex, etc.) drops, the ubiquitous Internet and new communication protocols surface (ZigBee), electronic size decreases, more efficient batteries continue to appear every day, it becomes cost effective to expand the ability to control and monitor electronic devices (machines) to a level of granularity never achieved before.

In a near future it is easy to envision the bottle of milk reporting to the refrigerator that it's 25% full, and having the refrigerator communicate with the local supermarket to schedule a milk delivery.