It was just a matter of time before someone figured out how to monetise Machine to Machine (M2M) communications, and it seems as though that path has been paved.
Prime Minister David Cameron declares every household in the country will have high-speed broadband as a utility by 2020: “Access to the Internet shouldn’t be a luxury; it should be a right."
If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, big data analytics, Internet-enabled devices, applications, network and storage.
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