Miami, FL and Scottsdale, AZ, January 31st, 2012: —Today, Compass Intelligence and NE2NE.com is announcing the official list of recipients of NE2NE’s A-List in M2M Awards, which recognizes the top vendors in the M2M market by category. NE2NE.com’s A-List in M2M honors organizations at the pinnacle of the M2M world, and includes those companies who offer the best and finest M2M products, services, and service enablement solutions in the industry.   

The 2012 A-List in M2M award recipients are displayed below:

• M2M Service Provider - AT&T  
• Chip/Modem/Module – Qualcomm and Novatel Wireless
• Platform & On-boarding – Jasper Wireless      
• Wireless Infrastructure – Ericsson and Alcatel Lucent
• Application Developer Platform - Axeda       
•  Integrator - IBM           
• Antenna & Signal Amplification - Wilson Electronics   
• Automotive – Ford and Airbiquity
• Hardware - Cradlepoint         
• Asset Tracking – OnAsset Intelligence 
• People Tracking - OmniLink
• Health & Wellness - GE
• Retail/Point-of-Sale – CoinStar / Redbox
• Smart Grid / Energy Management – Schneider Electric
• Smart Grid / Infrastructure – GE
• Smart Grid / Electricity and Water Smart Metering - Itron

Other vendors identified as “Companies to Watch in M2M” include: Echelon, Ecotality, Gemalto (Cinterion), ILS Technology, Iridium, Quake Global, Telit, ThingWorx, ublox, and Viewbiquity.      

Award recipients were evaluated, interviewed, and vetted by the Compass Intelligence Mobile & Wireless analyst team.  The list was then narrowed based on criteria such as product launches, R&D spending, products under development, product features and modifications, etc.  Next, a panel of independent experts including editors, analysts, and consultants voted via an online ballot.  The criteria used in evaluating 2012 A-List in M2M entries include vision, strategy, leadership and governance, organizational structure and alignment, key customers, partnerships, processes, openness, operational and financial metrics, and other qualitative factors.

More information on NE2NE’s A-List in M2M can be found here: http://ne2ne.com/whos.php

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