Need for Speed

Communication between machines already means a lot for people's safety. "The development within M2H-technology will further increase the possibilities to generate personal safety. But the whole industry faces a huge challange", says Kristin Säteröy, Managing Director at Maingate Norway and also responsible for competitative intelligence and analysis within the saftey area.

4G opens new possibilities

The condition, however, is that the technology is being developed further. "Today, only about 20 % of private alarms are working in a satisfactory way when communicating with the alarm control centres", says Ms Säteröy. The expansion of 4G-technology will become of great significance. Today's bandwidth restricts the possibilities of sending information, such as the sending of larger files, for example clips of film, to the alarm centrals. In a growing market there is an increased need for the services to be easy to handle and easy to integrate for the enduser. This mean integration between different services in people's homes, services that they can easily and effectively handle and use mobile solutions to extract information.

Rapid growth in the whole Europe

According to European calculations, the EU market for wireless safety systems with M2M technology will increase from 2,3 million units in 2009 to almost 22 million in 2014. This also means that the number of centrally monitored alarm- and traceability systems will increase from approximately 10 million units to 34 million units in 2014. "We'll be talking a lot about communication and integration. Many different functions will be united in the same piece of equipment. You will be able to remotely control alarm systems and monitor your home and your capital goods from your mobile phone. Many areas of communication, IT and functions will unite into one in the alarms of the future, alarms that more or less will become total systems for safety, convenience and economy", says Kristin Säteröy.