The organisation - which represents the mobile industry - said that the surge in connected devices and the growth of machine-to-machine communications were creating huge demand.

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Yeah, we can do that with a sensor, Machine-to-machine communications.

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There is also a huge market for machine-to-machine wireless communications (there are more machines in the world than people) and I will be discussing that aspect of wireless in a future posting.

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Now with machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, this volume is ready to explode and grow exponentially.

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Nice start, but it pales next to the prospect of ZigBee, an emerging wireless standard for short-range machine to machine communications.

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In the unstructured data world, especially text, the big trend is predictive coding or predictive analytics that identify high-risk communications, flag them for followup and use machine learning to train a data set.

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