02-01-2011 05:45 AM - last edited on 03-25-2019 02:21 PM by ciscomoderator
First, lets define a M2M gateway. Contrary to popular belief, this gateway is akin to the Connected Home gateway that sits at customer premises or an Enterprise Gateway that sits at the SME premises channeling all the traffic towards the Service Provider network. A block diagram based on a standardized M2M architecture with all the elements including the M2M Gateway can be found below. Broadly speaking then, M2M gateway can be termed as a box that terminates different capillary networks such as Zigbee, wifi, Bluetooth etc.
What are the advantages of such a model? lets look at the challenges faced by the Service Providers today:
Well, so what do we think? Does it make sense to have M2M Gateways and should Cisco investigate in enabling such services over its product portfolio?
Thoughts?
Sourabh
02-01-2011 03:04 PM
Seems that this is an area that has a lot of potential. I read an article earlier in the week in the WSJ about how the tough economy was causing more theft with vending machines. At least one own had installed devices that would page him when his machines were opened, enabling him to catch several thieves. Some of the theives were actually his own employees.
I think the key is to simplify deployments and reduce the price to make it cost effective for more applications.
-Greg Smith
02-04-2011 05:35 AM
Thanks Greg. I agree with that assessment. M2M shall become more appealing to Service providers if a common service platform (via normalisation) is evolved i.e. simplified deployment. Another critical factor for success is linkage with existing business/IT processes in the SP domain...greater the synergy, more OPEX savings.
Sourabh
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