M2M Connectivity Featured Article

It’s time to drink in some knowledge if you’re ready to dip your toes into the Smart Water Metering pool. Here to teach you to swim is a new whitepaper from Aeris (News - Alert) called “Introduction to ‘Smart’ Metering.”

The IoT, as a global industrial movement, brings together people, process, data, and things to make networked connections more relevant and valuable.

Solution providers and water and gas utilities are investing heavily in developing and adopting M2M and IoT technologies to achieve higher efficiency and more reliable performance in their delivery systems. While there are several options, cellular connectivity is one of the dominant choices for the following reasons: no in-house network infrastructure required, standards-driven to ensure interoperability, cost effective, ubiquitous coverage, and fast recovery in the event of a natural disaster.

For water delivery utilities such reliability and interoperability is critical, since without water supply buildings can’t support industry… or life.

To get you dogpaddling away, this whitepaper will cover the pros and cons of cellular technologies like GSM, CDMA, 2G, 3G, and 4G/LTE (News - Alert), show how unique cellular technology issues, like roaming and the 2G GSM sunset will have lasting effects on the industry and what companies will need to know to avoid unexpected costs.

It also covers hard to find information on cellular technology like through-puts for down- and up-links and a cellular acronym dictionary, and readers can learn more about the special needs of utility customers, and how certain solutions support multiple cellular technologies so decisions made today help the water meter industry to be better prepared in the future.

Click here to download: http://info.aeris.com/water-meters-the-internet-of-things-whitepaper’

Stay Thirsty.