Analyst firm Berg Insight predicts 186 million machines will be connected to wireless networks by 2012, up from 37.5 million connections last year.
Vehicle telematics applications likely will lead the machine-to-machine cellular market in most markets and account for more than half of all network connections, said the firm.
Berg Insight said GSM and legacy technologies dominate the market, hosting nearly two-thirds of all active connections. CDMA was the second-largest technology, with a stronghold in North America and parts of Asia-Pacific. W-CDMA has been adopted for M2M applications primarily in Japan, said the firm.
M2M applications account for up to 3% of the reported number of mobile subscribers in developed markets, said Berg Insight. That number is as high as 10% in markets like Sweden and Finland, due to their use of GPRS for meter reading applications.
Vehicle telematics to dominate M2M space
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