A robust M2M Gateway for effective integration of capillary and 3GPP networks

Machine to Machine (M2M) communication has gained much momentum in the recent past, both within academia and across different industries. Many of the M2M applications are required to send data to the M2M server connected directly or indirectly to the communication network such as 3GPP network. This requires connecting millions of M2M devices, apart from usual mobile devices, to the 3GPP network. However, this imposes a major deployment and management challenge, since the network was originally not designed to support billions of simultaneous connections. This paper discusses a practical M2M network deployment scenario and the architectural details. The paper provides a novel method to efficiently and effectively maintain and monitor multiplicity of M2M devices deployed for various applications such as monitoring, surveillance and tracking. Simulation result shows the benefits and practical uses of the proposed method.