Logistics & Transport
Machine-to-machine solutions can be applied to manage fleets of commercial vehicles and to passeger vehicles to add increased safety, quality, comfort and convenience for drivers. Vehicle telematics can create connected cars where enjoying seamless entertainment regardless of the location; and can help to monitor automotive fleet - allowing to provide immediate response to vehicle failure and early indicators of looming vehicle issues, route changes and requests for directions.
Fleet management solutions are vehicle-based systems that incorporate data logging, satellite positioning and data communication. Vehicle management is aimed to optimize the performance of the vehicle and the driver by monitoring a wide range of parameters, helping to mitigate risk, reduce cost and manage rising complexity.
M2M asset tracking systems can help to protect valuable properties and find ways to use your assets more productively. You can track your assets and their use in real time to reduce equipment thefs, cut maintenance costs, or drive profits.
Telematics technology is a key enabling technology to support electric vehicles. M2M solutions enable easily access vehicles remotely to handle their charging process. Drivers can check all vehicle information remotely and speed up the charging process, even receive automatic notifications directly to his phone when it is fully charged.
M2M solutions are being adopted by air, rail and marine carriers for monitoring the location, temperature, pressure, humidity (and other metrics) of cargo shipped or managing the fuel supplies and fuel consumption or engine performance, even to enable rapid location and recovery in emergency situations.
Intelligent transport systems based on M2M technologies can help to optimise and control the traffic flow of vehicles, reducing costs and carbon footprint. Its applications are countless: parking space management and payment, road tolls, traffic volume monitoring, connected road signs, traffic lights and cameras, etc.
Mobile M2M solutions enables connected navigation that can provide an overlay of real-time traffic events and conditions, weather information and POIs on a navigation map. Mobile cellular technology can also enhance the GPS to provide a perfect navigation experience.
M2M technology helps improve the flow of traffic and makes it possible to use intelligent telematics services that improve drivers safety, provide them with information, and allow their vehicles to be maintained more efficiently.
Passenger services, tram and rail networks, and bus systems can benefit of telematics to deliver updated schedule information to passengers and enable more-responsive local services. M2M location and communication technologies help to coordinate and optimize the utilisation whilst keeping passengers updated on the services.
Machine-to-machine solutions offer great advantages to the retail industry, enabling remote monitoring and control or process automation. M2M can also provide unique and innovative communication channels, such as digital advertising spaces, for reaching customers. M2M technology can optimize inventory, provide automatic updates on maintenance needs or even handle payment services. Customers can also enjoy superior shopping experience with real-time inventory data or information on special offers, leading to increased sales performance.
Telemetry systems are very helpful to manage vending machines in many diverse locations. M2M solutions can help operators to cut costs and reduce the number of visits and downtime, by providing real-time information about inventory, sales or errors in individual machines, as well as adjusting settings or changing prices.
Cashless payment by means of credit/debit cards and mobile payment is gaining acceptance and increasingly used. POS devices can be installed in open areas where telephone lines are absent or operated at peak times in addition to conventional phone lines, which makes them flexible as well as simple to use.
With M2M solutions, store managers can see automatically in real-time which items are stocked, which items they need to order, and how effectively certain items are selling. They can also help to provide a positive shopping experience for the customer, optimizing visual presentation, product placement, shelf capacity and in-stock positions.
The concern over security and safety is increasingly growing. The demand for effective security systems makes M2M technologies the perfect choice for private residential, commercial and public locations. They provide inexpensive, rapid and flexible deployment for video surveillance, building monitoring, surveillance, emergency services, among others.
Using M2M technology, personal tracking devices allow users to know where their relatives are in real time and they can be warned in case of problems or when they request assistance. It helps to enhance personal safety by helping parents, caretakers and authorities monitor children, elderly, pets and even people on home arrest.
Quick response and proper emergency assistance can help prevent some deaths in case of accident. M2M can help to save lives improving the handling of an emergency situation. Information can be provided in real time to the central control, so that hospitals can be better prepared for incoming patients and also provide in-transit care.
Governments have to mantain a wide range of infrastructure such as roads, bridges, tunnels, buildings, wires, cables, pipes, canals, sewers and waste dumps. M2M communications can be used to more efficiently monitor the condition of public infrastructure and even simplify daily maintenance by automating some tasks.
Security and surveillance systems can be used to monitor open spaces, valuable property or even people for protection or to identify intruders. M2M applications can keep track of all incidents and alert authorities, shortening reaction times, and enable remote access authorization to controlled area with the ability to open and close locks, doors or gates.
M2M (machine-to-machine) is a general term for systems that enable machines and equipment to communicate. The types of information going to and fro between the remote instruments and devices and the host center will enable a synchronized and harmonious operation to be accomplished.Real time data can be collected from the field and enter a processing center where, with other collective information, the system can make appropriate decisions on operation, service, maintenance, and location.
Manufacturing companies depend on their machinery having uninterrupted maintenance and holdups can cause additional downtime costs. M2M devices enable a direct remote access to machines/systems to enable diagnosis and a detailed error analysis so that production can be resumed as quickly as possible.
Remote Monitoring applications are designed to save money and improve efficiency. By monitoring values, any errors in the process or failures of system components can be detected and remedied early on to avoid further damage.
The benefits of intelligent systems for building technology and property management are clear. Heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, lighting and blinds can be monitored and controlled remotely to improve the building energy efficiency. Building automation systems helps to minimise power consumption while enhancing convenience.
M2M communications offer many options to connect detached stations along pipelines, transformer stations or faraway elevated reservoirs to their control centre for a flawless operation. Low-cost, reliable communications can be established wirelessly to connect remote control stations to get data from sensors and control modules.