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15.3.2 Key Technology
Although there are already many solutions existing for M2M security, there are
two features in M2M communication that may bring problems which cannot be
solved by the current technologies. As mentioned above, the two features are: (1)
the devices are deployed in very large amounts and the quantity will be larger and
larger in the future, and (2) most of the devices are resource-constrained. To over-
come the challenges brought by these two features, there are two rising technolo-
gies that are applied to M2M communication—the first one is IPv6 over low-power
wireless personal area networks (6LoWPAN) and the second one is constrained
application protocol (CoAP). Nowad ...