EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Attractive prices for mobile broadband and securing users’ personal data are key requirements for the success of embedded mobile services, according to Makoto ‘Max’ Miwa, Panasonic’s director of Tokyo R&D, in a recent interview with Mobile World Live. Miwa has been working on the networks of ubiquitous sensors that underpin embedded systems for six years. Such networks are also sometimes described as “the internet of things” or M2M. They have the potential to add interconnectivity to a staggering range of objects either in the household or outside world.

Miwa has some imaginative suggestions for how much of the world can be encompassed by embedded systems. He also wants embedded systems to move beyond separate, vertical applications. “If you could open those markets and connect them together and utilise all the essential data we’d have a different kind of application that may be much more fruitful.” The potential for the internet of things is certainly vast: Ericsson has forecast 50 billion connected devices globally by 2020. Miwa explains how such a prediction could be fulfilled in the full video interview here.