Old GSM Networks could power the Internet of Things (IOT)

In Disruption, Product & Service Design, Technology by Fredy Ore

Technology Review writes about how Intelligent Machines could one day end up using the radio frequencies allocated of old GSM mobile networks.

The Chinese city of Macau could be the first as it plans to phase out GSM by June 2015.

The article cites a Cornell University paper on Dedicated Networks for Smart Meters.

Image source, Flickr College of Computing at Georgia Tech

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