A look into the future

Abstract

We see today a world where people are requesting more and more information and sharing more and more data. Eventually, this will lead to a future where everyone and everything that can benefit from being connected will be connected, allowing for anytime/everywhere access to information and sharing of data.This networked society will not only encompass human beings. Rather, a substantial part of future information/data traffic will be due to machines that communicate. Such ma chine communication will emerge and flourish in many areas of society, including, e.g., safety and security applications, in the energy systems, and within the transport sector. This also means that machine-type communication can and should not be seen as a single new type of traffic. Rather machine-type communication will encompass a wide range of characteristics and requirements, all of which have to be taken into account when building up the networks of the future.The networked society will consist of three key components •