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5G for the Connected World
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5G for the Connected World

by Devaki Chandramouli, Rainer Liebhart, Juho Pirskanen
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
17h 3m
English
Wiley
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9Massive Machine Type Communication and the Internet of Things

Devaki Chandramouli1, Betsy Covell2, Volker Held3, Hannu Hietalahti4, Jürgen Hofmann3 and Rapeepat Ratasuk2

1Nokia, Irving, TX, USA

2Nokia, Naperville, USA

3Nokia, Munich, Germany

4Nokia, Oulu, Finland

9.1 Massive M2M Versus IoT

‘What is machine to machine (M2M)?’, ‘What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?’, ‘how do they relate to each other?’ are some of the commonly asked questions when it comes to machine type communication (MTC) and IoT. In this section, we will attempt to answer these questions in simple terms and also provide an overview. In simple terms, IoT refers to ‘anything and everything that is connected’, which includes machines and humans. M2M refers to ‘communication between devices using any communications channel, including wired and wireless’. In this sense, M2M is a subset of IoT.

IoT, as the name implies, can be considered more like an Internet‐like service, where a lot of cross‐cultural data and control points are available to a variety of applications or users. Consumers may use various parts of the data and control capabilities for their own purposes.

The classical M2M application is a remote measurement or control application with a dedicated purpose. Measurement and control operations can be performed at well‐defined control points, and the resulting data and control procedures are meaningful only within the application they are designed for.

Each M2M measurement application owns the data related ...

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