Beyond Traditional M2M to the Internet of Things Allen A Proithis Executive Vice President – Solutions Group InterDigital
M2M /IoT: The Market of Markets
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Global M2M IoT Market 2011-2016 490M connections and $23B revenues by 2016
Source: IHS, 2013
CDPD Telematics M2M IoT
Cellular & Operator Centric Access & Operator
Agnostic
SERVICES – INTERNET/ WEB OF THINGS
Access NW
NETWORK CONNECTIVITY
Access NW
Access NW
What the Internet of Things Entails
A Diversity of Applications
BIG DATA ANALYSIS
SERVICE DISCOVERY
SEMANTIC DATA
MODELING
DATA FUSION
Industrial Healthcare Retail Security
Smart Energy
Connected Home Transportation IT & Network
Infrastructure M2M VERTICALS
DEVICES & OBJECTS
Via the Web And Multiple Heterogeneous Networks
Interacting with a Myriad of Device Types
Today: An Ecosystem of Siloed, Proprietary, Vertical Solutions
• Current M2M solutions are fragmented
• Service providers build out their own access networks and service platforms – security, billing, device management…
• A closed ecosystem of devices, networks and applications
• Custom devices, protocols tailored to needs of specific applications
• Impedes scaling to mass market
Devices
Transport Network
Devices Devices
Transport Network
Transport Network
Application
A Application
B Application
C
Why? Plumbing Problems
Plumber’s Law
The speed of adoption is directly impacted by the invisibility &
abstraction of the infrastructure.
The Key: Simplicity
10 Digits Price
Universal Service
Ease of Use
Standards
Standards
Platform
Patents
Standards
3GPP2
BBF
ARIB
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Z-Wave
Alliance
TIA
ETSI
3GPP
ITU-T
ATIS
HGI
ZigBee
Alliance
ONVIF
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CCSA
PSIA
TTC
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W3C ? BACnet
? IEEE WiFi
Alliance
SIA
oneM2M TTA
(Korea) CCSA
(China)
ETSI (Europe)
TIA (N Amer)
ARIB (Japan)
ATIS (N Amer)
TTC (Japan)
IETF
Internet of
Things Security Cloud
Service Layer Web, Internet
M2M/IoT Open Source Projects
Air Interface
Smorgasbord of Standards & Industry Forums
Standards implemented in
Open Source
Open APIs, Source Code
Industry Alliances & Verticals
Mobility Web
• Standardized Service Platform leveraged by multiple applications
• Leverages capabilities of underlying transport networks
• Offers core capabilities required by many different applications
• M2M Gateway enables diverse access network technologies and device types to interconnect
Interoperability between Diverse Applications, Networks and Devices
Devices
Transport Network
Devices Devices
Transport Network
Transport Network
Local Network
Local Network
Local Network
Where the Industry Needs to Be: Breaking Silos, Bringing Interoperability & Scale
SERVICE CAPABILITIES LAYER
M2M Gateway
Application
A Application
B Application
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Source: www.droidmatters.com
Thank You Allen Proithis Executive Vice President InterDigital Solutions