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M2M and IoT are in the process of exploding as new technologies and solutions enter the market in a race to keep apace of mobility and connectivity. In fact, being connected is essentially a given these days with the number of connected devices skyrocketing globally. Aeris (News - Alert), a company that specializes in M2M and IoT solutions, understands that the industry has evolved beyond connectivity and into the next phase of development.

“In the beginning it was almost exclusively connectivity -– how do you get the data from the device back,” said Syed Zaeem Hosain, CTO and co-founder of Aeris, about the company’s origins. “What we see is people recognizing there’s a need to go beyond that. A need to understand what that data value is, to understand how they can use that data in their business to make the business actions happen.”

TMCnet Group Editorial Director Erik LInask spoke exclusively to Hosain at the recent Editors Day Santa Clara 2015 event about recent changes in the IoT and M2M spaces. Hosain said Aeris has been growing by leaps and bounds, more than doubling the units sold over the past year and becoming one of the top 10 providers of M2M cellular and IoT services.

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The company offers solutions along the entire services stack, beginning with the AerConnect platform for cellular connectivity. The AerVoyance solution offers valuable analytics and insights for M2M and IoT communications while the AerCloud acts as an application enablement platform. According to Hosain, the company’s customers have evolved beyond the need for basic connectivity and are requiring more valuable analytics and insights about their M2M transactions.

Those insights are proving valuable in two of the largest growing M2M vertical sectors – the automotive industry and the healthcare/medical sector. “Of the new cars being sold, one in four that are going into the market are running on our platform,” said Hosain. He added that healthcare is a logical fit for M2M and IoT as telemedicine and preventive care trends drive the medical field in a new direction.

Mobile network operators are also taking advantage of the full range of Aeris solutions, and can implement the company’s GSP Global M2M Service Delivery Platform on their own networks to launch M2M services and solutions. The offering is delivered as a cloud-based PaaS offering, enabling MNOs to focus on rolling out revenue-generating services and applications.