Got a note yesterday from Steve Pazol, president and CEO of nPhase, an integrator in the M2M space. "A very nice thing happened on the way in to work today." The very nice thing is that Qualcomm bought nPhase for an undisclosed amount of money. Qualcomm makes a wide variety of technologies that enable wireless communication principally via cellular technology. This purchase enables it to reach deeper into the factory and other manufacturing assets.
Machine-to-machine (or M2M and sometimes also linked to the term pervasive Internet) describes a category of business activity of interconnecting machines with IT infrastructure and mobilized workforces. This allows enterprises to manage and monitor machine assets. The press release notes, "nPhases's fixed-asset machine-to-machine technology, experience and established customer base complement Qualcomm's success in the mobile machine-to-machine market and will increase both the breadth and depth of Qualcomm's enterprise machine-to-machine portfolio."
The release continues with further definition of the space, "Wireless machine-to-machine telemetry is part of the concept of smart services, in which intelligence, awareness and connectivity are built into products for a variety of industries, including transportation and logistics, industrial and commercial manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture and food service. The products communicate back to the enterprise's machine-to-machine network hub via the Internet and report important information such as utilization, maintenance requirements, asset health and other variables.
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