Connected Vehicle Insights: Trends in Machine-to-Machine Communications

This report describes Machine-to-Machine service architecture and how it is evolving over the next several years. Nearly 50 billion Machine-to-Machine (M2M) devices are predicted to be deployed by all sectors by 2025. The largest impediment to M2M deployment in the transportation sector is largely life cycle cost, which is driven by stringent design and certification processes. This paper speculates that a "service-oriented" architecture, one that allows any M2M device to be securely accessible to any application, would be desirable for faster market growth. This report is part of the Connected Vehicle Technology Scan and Assessment project. This two year scanning series of Connected Vehicle Insight reports will assess emerging, converging and enabling technologies outside the domain of mainstream transportation research. ITS America seeks technologies that will potentially impact state-of-the-art or state-of-the-practice in ITS deployment over the next decade, with an emphasis on the "connected vehicle." The Technology Scan Series notes trends, technologies, and innovations that could influence, or be leveraged as part of, next-generation intelligent transportation systems within the next five to seven years. The series’ focus is on developments in applied science and engineering and innovation in data acquisition, dissemination, processing, and management technologies and techniques that can potentially support transportation.