The Internet of Important Things

White paper - The Internet of Important Things

Title: The Internet of Important Things – smart grid: an intelligent test case

Abstract

Telecommunications began by enabling people to talk with other people. As technology has progressed people started to communicate in a variety of ways using ‘machines’ (computers) as intermediaries. Machines are effectively communicating with other machines, largely guided by human operators. It is logical therefore, that machines will begin to communicate with other machines without human intervention. As smaller and smaller machines become able to communicate, a new Internet paradigm emerges: an Internet of machines, sometimes called machine-to-machine communication but increasingly being called the Internet of Things (IoT).

One of the great questions relating to the IoT is exactly how devices will connect to each other, given the large number of potential entities on a network. Wiring things together would be cumbersome and expensive and therefore the obvious means of achieving connectivity is through the use of wireless networks.

This white paper considers the opportunity for cellular operators to capitalise from the impending growth in the IoT. Arguably, the IoT starts with the Internet of important Things and first amongst the important uses of the IoT is likely to be smart meters. Using smart meters as an example, we consider the size and scale of the opportunity for cellular operators and how a joint cellular-mesh network approach may prove to be the ‘dream team’.

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