Does Wireless M2M Promise to Revolutionize Enterprise IT?
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I wanted to shift focus with today's post and take a look at an emerging category of wireless IT: machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Wireless M2M promises to revolutionize enterprise IT, adding a layer of always-on data integration to IT. From an IT manager's perspective the shift to M2M could be just as revolutionary as the introduction of smartphones, maybe even more so. First, let me define M2M. M2M communications established a link between different mechanical or service devices and a central network, providing continuous, or nearly continuous, data feeds. This means putting wireless sensors on anything from a water pipe to an HVAC system to an elevator, giving facilities management and IT always-on access to how any given part of a facility is working. While this technology has been on the IT horizon since the early 2000s, the systems required to make it work are finally affordable for most enterprises looking to deploy it on a large scale. Sprint helped kick start the IT vendor rush to M2M last month with a major announcement at CES in Las Vegas. Just to give you a glimpse of the potential of M2M, let's take a look at this interview with Sprint's Matthew Oommen, VP of Technology, conducted by noted wireless industry analyst Maribel Lopez (with whom I spoke a few weeks ago). Here is what Oommen had to say about M2M: Maribel: Matthew, there is a great deal of excitement about machine to machine (m2M), and the movement to internet of things. One of the questions that is frequently asked is, what is the benefit to having 4G as we move to the internet of things, what's Sprint's perspective on that? What does this mean for the average IT manager? Quite a bit. First, it means IT will soon be involved with such mundane tasks as facility management. While this may seem annoying at first, I posit this could help some IT managers, especially when it comes to controlling the costs of certain IT functions that tend to resources and facility intense, like managing data centers. The emergence of M2M in the enterprise also promises to embed IT into another core function of the enterprise, and show that IT can deliver when it comes to cost savings and managing resources. If you like this post, go here. ![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=b572a784-f808-4f6e-aedb-bf15ec375951) |
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