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are capable of sending and receiving phone QWhat is a telemetry data plan?
calls and text messages. Unless voice call-
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ing and text messaging is blocked at the ATelemetry plans offer wireless data
carrier, a call or text message to the tele- access on a carrier network. The
phone number associated with the SIM card plans are connected to telemetry and other
A1 Teletronics offers excess purchasing options will be registered by the carrier and it will machine-to-machine communications
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devices that use telemetry plans. I have noticed My company has several wireless monitoring
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By Timothy Colwell, Senior Vice President of Global
BTusiness Analytics, AOTMP
he Internet of Things is the collec-
tion of all communications enabled
devices connected to the internet.
It includes any device that can communi-
cate through wireline connectivity, wire-
less connectivity, and proximity technology
such as NFC (near field communications)
and RFID (radio frequency identifica-
tion). Collectively, the Internet of Things
includes any object that can actively or
passively communicate over the internet.
The size of the Internet of Things is
significant and market forecasts for the
number of devices that will be connected to
the internet by the end of the decade range
from 26 billion to 75 billion depending on
the source. This forecast means that of the
7 billion people on the earth today, there
Nick Davis is a VIP customer could be as many as ten devices connected
to the internet for every human being alive
He prefers to use email
by 2020!
While many of the devices associated
And I’m his preferred agent with the Internet of Things will be consum-
er-centric, there will be a large population
His emails get routed to me
of enterprise devices and these devices will
change the composition of enterprise tele-
I check his contact history com environments. The number of telem-
etry devices, RFID readers and machine-to-
Respond to his question promptly machine devices that may be present in an
enterprise environment will alter the scope
Give him the VIP treatment of telecom management.
A significant number of these devices
Makes him happy
will be connected via wireless. Install a
SIM card into a device, activate it through
Which makes my job easy
a wireless network carrier and an Internet
of Things device is born. These devices
require the same technical, operational and
financial controls afforded by telecom man-
agement practices to assure the device, the
SIM card, the wireless network carrier ser-
vice plan are identified, tracked, supported
and maintained in the same manner as a
smartphone or feature phone.
The Internet of Things will change the
things to be managed and mature telecom
management practices are poised to meet
the challenge.
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