Sprint claimed that it has brought together 30 diverse industry majors as partners to assist businesses with M2M development through its newly launched M2M Collaboration Center. The center is located at Burlingame, Calif., and is stated as the place where partners and enterprise customers work together to develop commercially viable offerings based on M2M technology.

The center will help companies with new product and service ideas to directly collaborate with networking, computing and applications technology majors.

With M2M, machines “talk” to each other over wired or wireless connections and share data without direct human intervention. Using this functionality, service providers can support a variety new uses and achieve increased efficiencies with devices as diverse as utility meters, signboards, cameras, remote sensors, laptops, appliances and other consumer devices.

Sprint (News - Alert) stated that its customers along with the partners of the M2M Collaboration Center's partner ecosystem will be able to use the center as a working laboratory for wirelessly connecting devices as varied as routers, medical equipment, laptops, tablets, digital billboards, cameras, remote sensors, utility meters and appliances.

"The Sprint M2M Collaboration Center brings together a remarkable roster of M2M talent and resources, including some of the world's foremost innovators in mobile networks, devices, telematics, embedded computing, cloud computing, vertical industry solutions and wireless prototyping and testing," said Danny Bowman, president-Sprint Integrated Solutions (News - Alert) Group, in a release. "The center gives our partners and customers a unique opportunity to match these resources with a combination of 4G, 3G and IP capabilities that only Sprint can deliver today."

Identifying complementary technologies and driving M2M innovation by working closely and helping Sprint customers to accelerate their own M2M development cycles to quickly bring products and services to the market are stated as the two advantages that the participating ecosystem partners will get to enjoy. These partners will also participate in events, structured workshops, technical briefings and other knowledge development programs targeted to the M2M developer community.