Telematics and M2M communications: Creating the Internet of things

Susan Kuchinskas explores how machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is creating an ‘Internet of things’ and what it means for the telematics industry.
 The Internet is typically experienced as a virtual realm of information, entertainment, and social networking. But as mobile technology becomes more and more sophisticated, an ‘Internet of things’ is emerging—devices and physical objects that have their own IP addresses and/or act as nodes on data networks that may be local, regional, or global. Read on