There’s an interesting 2014 predictions blog post by AT&T’s Mobeen Khan that offers some thoughts on where the market for Machine-to-Machine (or M2M) technology is going in the next 12 months. According to Khan, an Executive Director of Marketing at AT&T Business, the M2M space is poised to take off in the next twelve months, as consumer demand for “smart” devices grows in both developed and developing markets, and as the M2M application stack matures, attracting the interest of developers. With M2M technology maturing, and the “Internet of Things” exiting its “gee whiz” phase, firms selling the technology no longer need to worry as much about justifying the return on investment for M2M and IoT technology. As that happens, however, security will become the most pressing issue in the M2M space, Khan believes. “To date, companies deploying M2M solutions have looked to ROI as the #1 need. As the need/ROI of […]
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Future Will Bring More Drones, More Drone Hacks
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs (aka “drones”) are evolving – and fast. Just within the last five years, drones have morphed from stealthy and secretive military gear used for hunting down terrorists in the hills of Afghanistan and Yemen, to widely available consumer technology. The “consumerization” of UAV technology has created a lot of opportunities for Cool! – like this video of a UAV flying over (and almost in to) Niagra Falls. But it has also led to some problems. In March, a UAV “quadrcopter” came within a couple hundred feet of striking an Alitalia flight trying to land at JFK Airport in New York. More concerning: the FAA is set to license tens of thousands of drones for use over the U.S., many by law enforcement or private security firms. That has prompted warnings about a huge breach of privacy for U.S. citizens. But one security researcher warns that […]
