Link: http://taotwits-too-big-to-tweet.blogspot.com/2013/03/m2m-weapon-on-war-on-carbon-emissions.html
Synopsis:
The estimated environmental impact on the four key industries that M2M promises to disrupt:
- Energy: Savings of more than 2 Gt of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission, via smart meters and demand-response applications
- Transportation: Reductions of close to 1.9 Gt of CO2, through route optimization of planes, trains, trucks and ships.
- Built Environment: CO2 emissions cuts of 1.6 Gt, related to energy efficiency of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, lighting, appliances and security systems.
- Agriculture: Savings of about 1.6 Gt of CO2, through M2M-enabled forestry management, harvesting, fertilizer applications and water use.
What’s holding things back?
Five barriers that could make it tough to scale M2M technologies:
Five barriers that could make it tough to scale M2M technologies:
- The reliance of mobile network operators on other M2M players to bring end-to-end solutions to market
- Lack of universal standards that govern components, data exchange and applications development
- Limited metrics on the return on investment offered by M2M applications
- Lack of strong marketing angles for “selling” M2M technologies, due primarily to limited performance data
- Long sales cycles and payback periods for M2M technology deployments
My thoughts: I would add a 2(a) to the list of barriers – competition for market dominance between: network operators, cloud service providers, industrial equipment manufactures, consumer technology manufactures and old-school IT S/W vendors, combined with, the likely inertia of existing vertical industry standards groups, will make agreement on universal standards extremely difficult. We should expect to live in a multi-standards world for many years to come – this, however, will provide an opportunity for savvy Sensing-as-a-Service providers to offer seamless interoperability.
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