The installed base of wireless M2M connections in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region will rise to 109.0 million in 2017, up from 32.6 million in 2012, according to IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS). By 2017, Asia-Pacific is set to be the second-largest regional M2M market, behind only Europe in total cumulative cellular M2M connection volume.

In January, IHS researchers say, eleven operator members of the Bridge Alliance in the Asian-Pacific region formed the Bridge M2M Alliance. The group was chartered to “promote the growth of cellular M2M services in APAC.”

The 11 founding Bridge M2M Alliance operators provide connectivity to more than 570 million mobile subscribers in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Bridge M2M Alliance will specifically address market inhibitors unique to the Asia-Pacific region.

“There are some fundamental structural challenges to the growth of multinational M2M deployments in Asia-Pacific that don’t impact other regions to the same extent,” said Bill Morelli, associate director of M2M & Internet of Things at IHS. “These problems include an overabundance of cellular air standards, major geographical barriers, and highly divergent market dynamics in different countries. The Bridge M2M Alliance could play a key role in overcoming these issues and enabling the region to attain its growth potential.”

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A new study from Strategy Analytics – “M2M Connections by Industry Vertical and Bandwidth” – predicts M2M connections will grow from 368 million in 2013 to 2.9 billion by 2022.

Of those connections, we’re told, 78 percent will be on 3G or faster networks by 2022.

Key factors such as M2M platform evolution, application and analytics developments, regulation as well as the creation of new business opportunities and avoiding obsolescence are all factors driving M2M to an expected growth in connections of 23 percent CAGR growth between 2013 and 2022.

“Regulation has always been a key driver pushing M2M forward, whether it’s the emergence of the ACA (Obamacare), or smart metering initiatives in Europe or China,” asserts Andrew Brown, Director of Enterprise and M2M research at Strategy Analytics.

Brown is also the author of the study.

“However,” he adds, “it is also the investment from industrial giants like GE and pressure from ‘kick-starter-funded’ companies pursuing ‘over-the-top’ initiatives for the ‘Internet of Things’ that are providing the impetus and competition that will also help customers find an increasing range of relevant, tailored solutions.”

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