De facto M2M protocol might be decided by appliance makers

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