ECCEL Corp. has named Cinterion Wireless Modules as its exclusive module supplier for telemetry solutions for energy, water, oil and gas applications.
“ECCEL has used modules from different manufacturers but with Cinterion, we have found the best modules in the market with the highest quality and excellent functionality,” says Asdrúbal Espitia, CEO of ECCEL. “We provide solutions for very critical applications where reliability, stability and performance are vital, so you need to have a very good communications technology partner and Cinterion is the best.”
ECCEL is a Bogota, Colombia-based company that develops intelligent wireless solutions with advanced functionality.
Machine-to-machine communications is a technology that enables equipment anywhere in the world to provide data on its own status, relay other information and be remotely controlled. The M2M opportunity applies to everything from ATM machines to heart monitors. In fact, telephone companies have been talking about the promise of M2M for more than a decade. But early on the telcos used the word telemetry to describe this concept. The application the telcos liked to reference in those days was vending – that is, allowing owners of candy and soda pop machines to monitor their boxes remotely to stay abreast of when refills or other maintenance were required. But the expansion of that still-popular application to what’s happening today is no small change.
According to ABI Research, more 20 million cellular M2M modules (the transmitters required for a device to communicate) shipped in 2007, and these shipments are growing faster than 30 percent annually.
The global M2M market is expected to reach $50 billion next year and is forecast to grow to $250 billion by 2012, according to FocalPoint Group data quoted by Duane Wald, director of embedded sales at MultiTech Systems. Wald presented the opening session at the Machine to Machine Evolution Conference, which was colocated with ITEXPO West this fall in Los Angeles.
Edited by
Michael Dinan
