Also, considering the speed of evolution of mobile device features and operating systems, evolving field requirements, ongoing maintenance of multiple platforms can cost multiple times the initial development budget over a five-year period.
Enterprises can deploy M2M technology now to reduce the cost of field service management through remote maintenance, they can optimize fleet scheduling with real-time location and traffic data and they can tap into new business models such as usage-based (or pay-as-you) go billing.
Royal Dutch Shell, an oil company, will use Darwin as a maintenance base for a floating processing plant for LNG from the Prelude field off Western Australia.