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Telit Communications PLC is a global vendor of wireless machine to machine
(M2M) technology headquartered in London (UK). The company is listed on AIM
.
Telit Wireless Solutions (TWS) is a subsidiary of Telit Communications PLC. Telit is a fast-growing wireless M2M company, addressing a worldwide market that amounts to €14 billion already today. In terms of sales, Telit is ranked as the third-largest M2M module supplier worldwide by market research firm Berg Insight. Since 2005, the company has achieved steadily increasing sales.
Telit Wireless Solutions' headquarters are located in Rome
(Italy
), with regional headquarters in EMEA
(Trieste
, Italy
), North America
(Raleigh
, NC, USA), Latin America (São Paulo, Brazil), and APAC (Seoul, Korea). The company has a wide network of sales offices located in Brazil, China, Denmark, Germany, France, India, Israel, Italy, Korea, Russia, Spain, the Republic of South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, the UK and the USA.
handsets and other mobile communications devices such as the first Globalstar
satellite phone
have been supplied to users and operators worldwide.
In March 2011 Telit acquired Motorola Solutions' M2M modules business unit. The acquisition brings Telit’s consolidated pro forma revenues to approximately $180 million for the year ended 31 December 2010. This is equivalent to a pro forma market share of
approximately 20% based on the current market analysis by Beecham Research.
Today, Telit develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of enterprise communication modules comprising all relevant wireless technologies for M2M applications that streamline business processes by enabling machines, devices and vehicles to communicate via mobile networks. Telit owns GSM/GPRS, EDGE
, UMTS/WEDGE
/HSPA
and CDMA products as well as short-range modules such as Wi-Fi
, ZigBee
, Short Range RF
(proprietary mesh and point-to-point networks for unlicensed frequency bands), Wireless
MBus
and PSM2M
modules.
Telit is currently the only M2M company worldwide to publish the M2M trade magazine telit2market. Being released regularly once a year, it informs about current developments and new technological developments in the M2M market.
(Italy), Sardinia
(Italy), Sophia Antipolis
(France), Seoul
(South Korea) and Tel Aviv (Israel). The R&D facility in Trieste is the company’s main engineering, design & development facility, and headquarters for the global R&D function. Trieste focuses its braintrust in the advancement of GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and GPS technologies. Telit's Sardinia R&D center is the primary competence center for other wireless technologies and special projects. This facility investigates short-range wireless, satellite, and other emerging technologies. The R&D Center in Sophia Antipolis
focuses on the development of short range technologies such as ZigBee
, Wireless MBus
, and Short Range RF. Telit's APAC R&D center in Seoul is the main development site for the company's CDMA, WCDMA, and UMTS projects. It is also Telit's center of competence for automotive specific products and rugged design technologies. The team in Tel Aviv supports the other R&D centres worldwide in the cellular sector. The open Technical Forum is an online knowledge database for the entire M2M community.
, accuracy, and others in the business world. Today, M2M applications are serving key functions. The M2M market is growing rapidly. According to Analysys Mason, the global market for machine-to-machine (M2M) device connections will grow from 62 million devices in 2010 to 2.1 billion devices in 2020. According to market research company ABI Research, cellular M2M connections will approximately triple their current number of about 75 million by 2014.
or telematics
that is accomplished using networks, especially public wireless networks. Key applications are:
(AMR), Point of sale
s (POS) terminals, transport and logistics
(fleet management
), healthcare, security technology, and many other applications. To ensure that value-chain players can profit from efficiency benefits afforded by the use of M2M modules, high quality, cost-effective, scalable and market-oriented solutions are needed. Additionally, the demands on M2M modules will continue to increase in the future – requiring substantial added versatility in use. The integration of complementary technologies such as Wi-Fi
, GPS, Bluetooth
and ZigBee
at module level is constantly gaining increasing importance while the demand for small and compact modules for terminals geared towards the consumer market will also steadily grow (e.g. vital-sign monitoring, localisation and alerts for people with health conditions, and personal navigation) from the perspective of total cost of ownership
and time to market
.
Especially since the deregulation of the metering sector that has been triggered by the amendment of EnWG in Germany
, so called smart meter
ing solutions have become mandatory for new buildings as of 2010. Another consumer focus area will be the telematics sector: Driven by the European Commission
, the European eCall system – also based on M2M technology – will dramatically reduce the response time of the emergency services. The European Commission
expects that all new cars within the European Union
will be fully equipped with this emergency technology.
Machine to Machine
Machine-to-Machine refers to technologies that allow both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same ability...
(M2M) technology headquartered in London (UK). The company is listed on AIM
Alternative Investment Market
AIM is a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, allowing smaller companies to float shares with a more flexible regulatory system than is applicable to the main market....
.
Telit Wireless Solutions (TWS) is a subsidiary of Telit Communications PLC. Telit is a fast-growing wireless M2M company, addressing a worldwide market that amounts to €14 billion already today. In terms of sales, Telit is ranked as the third-largest M2M module supplier worldwide by market research firm Berg Insight. Since 2005, the company has achieved steadily increasing sales.
Telit Wireless Solutions' headquarters are located in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
(Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
), with regional headquarters in EMEA
EMEA
EMEA may stand for:* the previous acronym of the European Medicines Agency, an EU regulatory agency for the evaluation of medicinal products* Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
(Trieste
Trieste
Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
), North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
(Raleigh
Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh is the capital and the second largest city in the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 403,892, over an area of , making Raleigh...
, NC, USA), Latin America (São Paulo, Brazil), and APAC (Seoul, Korea). The company has a wide network of sales offices located in Brazil, China, Denmark, Germany, France, India, Israel, Italy, Korea, Russia, Spain, the Republic of South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, the UK and the USA.
History
In 1986, the company started as Telital and Telital Automotive – an engineering company providing research and development services to multinational telecoms. In 1997, the company began manufacturing and marketing products under the Telit brand. Telit launched its first M2M module called Datablock in 1998. Since 1997, millions of cellularCellular
Cellular may refer to:*Cellular automaton, a model in discrete mathematics*Cellular , a 2004 movie*Cellular frequencies, assigned to networks operating in cellular RF bands*Cellular manufacturing...
handsets and other mobile communications devices such as the first Globalstar
Globalstar
Globalstar is a low Earth orbit satellite constellation for satellite phone and low-speed data communications, somewhat similar to the Iridium satellite constellation and Orbcomm satellite systems.-History:...
satellite phone
Satellite phone
A satellite telephone, satellite phone, or satphone is a type of mobile phone that connects to orbiting satellites instead of terrestrial cell sites...
have been supplied to users and operators worldwide.
In March 2011 Telit acquired Motorola Solutions' M2M modules business unit. The acquisition brings Telit’s consolidated pro forma revenues to approximately $180 million for the year ended 31 December 2010. This is equivalent to a pro forma market share of
approximately 20% based on the current market analysis by Beecham Research.
Today, Telit develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of enterprise communication modules comprising all relevant wireless technologies for M2M applications that streamline business processes by enabling machines, devices and vehicles to communicate via mobile networks. Telit owns GSM/GPRS, EDGE
Edge
- Aviation :* Leading edge, a line connecting the forward-most points of a wing's profile* Trailing edge, the rear edge of the wing* Zivko Edge 540, an aerobatic aircraft- Mathematics, science and technology :...
, UMTS/WEDGE
Wedge
Wedge may refer to:Mathematics:* Triangular prism, a parallel triangle wedge* Wedge , a polyhedral solid defined by two triangles and three trapezoid faces* Wedge product, a mathematical term, named for the ∧ operator symbol used...
/HSPA
High Speed Packet Access
High Speed Packet Access is an amalgamation of two mobile telephony protocols, High Speed Downlink Packet Access and High Speed Uplink Packet Access , that extends and improves the performance of existing WCDMA protocols...
and CDMA products as well as short-range modules such as Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...
, ZigBee
ZigBee
ZigBee is a specification for a suite of high level communication protocols using small, low-power digital radios based on an IEEE 802 standard for personal area networks. Applications include wireless light switches, electrical meters with in-home-displays, and other consumer and industrial...
, Short Range RF
Radio frequency
Radio frequency is a rate of oscillation in the range of about 3 kHz to 300 GHz, which corresponds to the frequency of radio waves, and the alternating currents which carry radio signals...
(proprietary mesh and point-to-point networks for unlicensed frequency bands), Wireless
Wireless
Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...
MBus
Meter-Bus
M-Bus is a European standard for the remote reading of gas or electricity meters. M-Bus is also usable for other types of consumption meters. The M-Bus interface is made for communication on two wire, making it very cost effective...
and PSM2M
Machine to Machine
Machine-to-Machine refers to technologies that allow both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same ability...
modules.
Telit is currently the only M2M company worldwide to publish the M2M trade magazine telit2market. Being released regularly once a year, it informs about current developments and new technological developments in the M2M market.
Research and Development (R&D)
Telit disposes of five own R&D centres around the globe that are located in TriesteTrieste
Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...
(Italy), Sardinia
Sardinia
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...
(Italy), Sophia Antipolis
Sophia Antipolis
Sophia Antipolis is a technology park northwest of Antibes and southwest of Nice, France. Much of the park falls within the commune of Valbonne. Created in 1970-84, it houses primarily companies in the fields of computing, electronics, pharmacology and biotechnology. Several institutions of higher...
(France), Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
(South Korea) and Tel Aviv (Israel). The R&D facility in Trieste is the company’s main engineering, design & development facility, and headquarters for the global R&D function. Trieste focuses its braintrust in the advancement of GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and GPS technologies. Telit's Sardinia R&D center is the primary competence center for other wireless technologies and special projects. This facility investigates short-range wireless, satellite, and other emerging technologies. The R&D Center in Sophia Antipolis
Sophia Antipolis
Sophia Antipolis is a technology park northwest of Antibes and southwest of Nice, France. Much of the park falls within the commune of Valbonne. Created in 1970-84, it houses primarily companies in the fields of computing, electronics, pharmacology and biotechnology. Several institutions of higher...
focuses on the development of short range technologies such as ZigBee
ZigBee
ZigBee is a specification for a suite of high level communication protocols using small, low-power digital radios based on an IEEE 802 standard for personal area networks. Applications include wireless light switches, electrical meters with in-home-displays, and other consumer and industrial...
, Wireless MBus
MBus
MBus is a computer bus designed and implemented by Sun Microsystems for communication between high speed computer system components, such as the central processing unit, motherboard and main memory...
, and Short Range RF. Telit's APAC R&D center in Seoul is the main development site for the company's CDMA, WCDMA, and UMTS projects. It is also Telit's center of competence for automotive specific products and rugged design technologies. The team in Tel Aviv supports the other R&D centres worldwide in the cellular sector. The open Technical Forum is an online knowledge database for the entire M2M community.
The M2M Market
Allowing real-time monitoring and control, minimizing or dispensing human intervention, M2M is gaining significant market traction as it addresses the ever-increasing demands in speed, savings, safety, environmental protection, localization, remote controlRemote control
A remote control is a component of an electronics device, most commonly a television set, used for operating the television device wirelessly from a short line-of-sight distance.The remote control is usually contracted to remote...
, accuracy, and others in the business world. Today, M2M applications are serving key functions. The M2M market is growing rapidly. According to Analysys Mason, the global market for machine-to-machine (M2M) device connections will grow from 62 million devices in 2010 to 2.1 billion devices in 2020. According to market research company ABI Research, cellular M2M connections will approximately triple their current number of about 75 million by 2014.
What is M2M Communication About?
The chief value of Machine-to-Machine communication is to enable applications that allow businesses to increase productivity and competitiveness through increased efficiencies, cost-savings, and improved levels of service. M2M refers to telemetryTelemetry
Telemetry is a technology that allows measurements to be made at a distance, usually via radio wave transmission and reception of the information. The word is derived from Greek roots: tele = remote, and metron = measure...
or telematics
Telematics
Telematics typically is any integrated use of telecommunications and informatics, also known as ICT...
that is accomplished using networks, especially public wireless networks. Key applications are:
- Connecting machines to other machines – e.g. remote production environments.
- Connecting machines to service centers – e.g. cars that automatically notify service centers of maintenance issues.
- Connecting service centers to machines – e.g. vending machines that report the stock status to a central inventory system.
- Connecting individuals or vehicles to machines – e.g. indicating their geographical position for enhanced personal security.
Application Areas
M2M applications can be found in a wide range of industries and sectors including vending machines, automatic meter readingAutomatic meter reading
Automatic meter reading, or AMR, is the technology of automatically collecting consumption, diagnostic, and status data from water meter or energy metering devices and transferring that data to a central database for billing, troubleshooting, and analyzing.This technology mainly saves utility...
(AMR), Point of sale
Point of sale
Point of sale or checkout is the location where a transaction occurs...
s (POS) terminals, transport and logistics
Logistics
Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...
(fleet management
Fleet management
Fleet management is the management of a company's vehicle fleet.Fleet management includes commercial motor vehicles such as cars, vans and trucks. Fleet management can include a range of functions, such as vehicle financing, vehicle maintenance, vehicle telematics , driver management, speed...
), healthcare, security technology, and many other applications. To ensure that value-chain players can profit from efficiency benefits afforded by the use of M2M modules, high quality, cost-effective, scalable and market-oriented solutions are needed. Additionally, the demands on M2M modules will continue to increase in the future – requiring substantial added versatility in use. The integration of complementary technologies such as Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...
, GPS, Bluetooth
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...
and ZigBee
ZigBee
ZigBee is a specification for a suite of high level communication protocols using small, low-power digital radios based on an IEEE 802 standard for personal area networks. Applications include wireless light switches, electrical meters with in-home-displays, and other consumer and industrial...
at module level is constantly gaining increasing importance while the demand for small and compact modules for terminals geared towards the consumer market will also steadily grow (e.g. vital-sign monitoring, localisation and alerts for people with health conditions, and personal navigation) from the perspective of total cost of ownership
Total cost of ownership
Total cost of ownership is a financial estimate whose purpose is to help consumers and enterprise managers determine direct and indirect costs of a product or system...
and time to market
Time to market
In commerce, time to market is the length of time it takes from a product being conceived until its being available for sale. TTM is important in industries where products are outmoded quickly...
.
Especially since the deregulation of the metering sector that has been triggered by the amendment of EnWG in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, so called smart meter
Smart meter
A smart meter is usually an electrical meter that records consumption of electric energy in intervals of an hour or less and communicates that information at least daily back to the utility for monitoring and billing purposes. Smart meters enable two-way communication between the meter and the...
ing solutions have become mandatory for new buildings as of 2010. Another consumer focus area will be the telematics sector: Driven by the European Commission
European Commission
The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
, the European eCall system – also based on M2M technology – will dramatically reduce the response time of the emergency services. The European Commission
European Commission
The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
expects that all new cars within the European Union
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
will be fully equipped with this emergency technology.
External links
- Company Website: Telit Wireless Solutions
- July 5, 2011 (Business Standard): Telit's M2M tech to foster microfinance sector
- March 21, 2011 (EE Times): Optimizing cellular M2M apps for range and longevity
- March 2, 2011 (Proactive Investors): Telit Communications completes Motorola M2M takeover
- September 30, 2010 (M2M Machine to Machine): Wireless M-Bus Portfolio: Chips, Modules, Terminals, USB-Sticks, Gateways
- August 5, 2010 (Connected World Magazine): New Audi Has Technology at the Wheel
- April 6, 2010 (Proactive Investors): Telit reaches 2 million module sales milestone for GE864 product family
- March 24, 2010 (Proactive Investors): Telit Preliminary Results 2009: Astaire believes Telit Communications well-placed in M2M market
- February 03, 2010 (Deutsche Telekom AG): Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile and Telit seal deal to collaborate in worldwide M2M growth market
- December 15, 2009 (elektroniknet.de): Magneti Marelli and TELIT sign a Memorandum of Understanding in the field of telematic devices for automotive