De facto M2M protocol might be decided by appliance makers
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Popular standards flow from the lowest common denominator.
From Ericsson’s 50 billion node mobile universe to Qualcomm’s 1,000X meme, there’s been no shortage of grand vision for machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity at CES. Meaningful standards are lacking, but at least a consensus seems to be building around what to call it: the Internet of things – IoT.
Since it’ll be using the same, old Internet, there’s no particular worry about how to deliver data from point A to point B, and back again.… More