Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technology is an especially broad
application area that enables communications between people,
devices, systems, appliances, buildings, vehicles, meters, etc.

This allows for remote access, ongoing monitoring, maintenance,
diagnostics, status tracking and more.

Estimates have been made that by 2007 there will be more machines
interconnected than people. The number of machines that are
candidates for interconnection are easily in the hundreds of millions.
Indeed, some estimates believe that in a few years these machines
may well number in excess of 50 billion worldwide.

There are very good reasons for the explosive growth of the M2M area.
It all focuses on operating efficiency and bottom line results.

For example, M2M allows machines to be monitored remotely from anywhere
and the machines can report status, malfunctions or service requirements.

By knowing the machine state in advance, production
considerations, maintenance and service can be performed in a
much more cost-effective manner.

Just some of the vast array of applications suitable for this
technology can be found here .

GlobalReach is a low-cost, out-of-the-box M2M solution
allowing, with a minimum of effort, user defined complex
control, monitoring, acquisition, and reporting functions.