ComputerWeekly.com's Antony Savvas says a Juniper Research report entitled Wireless Telematics & Machine to Machine: Entering the Growth Phase, 2006-2011 finds that the market for wireless-enabled machine-to-machine (M2M) applications will grow from £10.8 billion in 2006 to more than £23 billion by 2009, and to £39 billion by 2011.

"Wireless M2M is poised to revolutionise the workings of large organisations across all industries, extending their IT assets in ways hitherto unimagined," says report author Therese Cory.

"Today's market has been transformed by a number of important factors, including improvements in wireless technology, a reduction in component costs, the standardisation of interfaces, and the adoption by new industries and applications," Cory says.