M2M solutions for data collection

The wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) world is also evolving rapidly with a growing number of devices connected to each other in various types of industrial and domestic networks. Using scalable wireless mesh networking, wireless products should be able to handle configurations scalable up to any size.


M2M wireless (including industrial applications) is sometimes regarded as the “third wave” of wireless, after office-based (Wi-Fi) and consumer based (mobile) communications.

When it comes to M2M, practitioners should make sure that new modules of any vendor offerings offer backward compatible with existing hardware and software, allowing them to leverage their existing deployments.

An interesting trend to watch in the world of industrial wireless is the increasing collaboration between traditional IT departments in the corporate office and the process engineers on the plant floors, thanks to the penetration of Ethernet in both; this spills over into areas like network monitoring, performance analysis and optimization.


In sum, wireless is continuing to grow in the industrial space as some of the newer technologies are more capable and secure. Choice does not always have to be accompanied by complexity in this case, especially when future-proofing is concerned.
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