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IntroDuCtIon
• Banking services—Point of sale (POS) and automated bank-
ing machines (ABMs) for doing credit and debit transactions
with merchants and increasing money transfers—and simply
obtaining cash.
• Facilities management—Monitoring of facilities infrastructure
for rapid maintenance, inventory management, and ecien-
cies. Control of heating and cooling systems, water systems,
and electrical systems.
• Metering—Monitoring of endpoint usage by consumers of
consumables such as energy, water, and parking spaces. e
result is faster, more ecient, more exible, and more accu-
rate billing and troubleshooting.
Blue-Sky Convergence
Blue-sky convergence is the arrival of entirely new, IP-based func-
tionality in existing goods and services