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Mechanized dialogue

Updated: 2012-08-13 13:14
By Kevin J. O'Brien ( The New York Times)

Mechanized dialogue 

Machines' conversations are set to revamp mobile systems

Berlin

Ocado, an online grocery store in England, prides itself on its delivery of refrigerated foods: When the company says the goods will arrive at a certain temperature, they mean it.

Aided by microchip transmitters, heat sensors and a fast-growing form of wireless communication, the boast is a measurable fact.

Inside each Ocado delivery van is a SIM-card module the size of a postage stamp that monitors the air temperature. The sensor sends data to a computer used by fleet managers back at headquarters every few minutes.

Ocado says incidents of spoiled goods have declined since the transmitters were installed last year.

"It has saved us time and given us more confidence in our real-time monitoring, as well as being a safety check for the driver," said Paul Clarke, Ocado's director of technology.

The drone of low-density conversation between Ocado's trucks and its headquarters near London is one example of machine-to-machine communication, a stream of consciousness based on semiconductors that is poised to reinvigorate the mobile industry.

Berg Insight, a research firm in Goteborg, Sweden, says the number of machine-to-machine devices using the world's wireless networks reached 108 million in 2011 and will at least triple that by 2017.

Ericsson, the leading maker of wireless network equipment, sees as many as 50 billion machines connected by 2020. Only 10 billion are likely to be cellphones and tablet computers. The rest will be machines, talking not to us, but to one another.

The combined level of robotic chatter on the world's wireless networks - measured in the digital data load they exert on networks - is likely soon to exceed that generated by the sum of all human voice conversations taking place on wireless grids.

"I would say that is definitely possible within 10 years," said Miguel Blockstrand, the director of Ericsson's machine-to-machine division in Stockholm. "This is a 'What if?' kind of technology. People start to consider the potential, and the possibilities are endless."

Machine-to-machine communications has been around for more than two decades, initially run on landline connections and used for controlling industrial processes remotely. The same robotic conversations are now rapidly shifting to wireless networks. When the amount of data traffic generated by machines overtakes that created by human conversations - or possibly before - mobile operators will have to choose who waits to make a call or receive an e-mail, the machine or the human.

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