Chapter 5M2M

DOI: 10.1201/9781003303206-5

Through automated money transfer supporting machines like automatic teller machines (ATMs), we could save considerable resources, which are providing more security to critical sectors. Similarly, M2M applications will support us to master the demographic changes. Around the mid-1990s when the first of the modems came to the market, before our eyes, we saw the increase of circuit-switched data transfer standards from speeds of 2400 to 4800 to 9600 baud. Think about the new services and Short Message Service (SMS) standards from General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) to the current LTE/4G/5G. When things become smart in this way, they open up entirely new opportunities.

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