The Telecommunications Industry Association (News - Alert) represents the global information and communications technology industry. The association is responsible for developing industry standards, promoting advocacy, organizing tradeshows, creating business opportunities and providing market intelligence and world-wide environmental regulatory analysis. Since 1924, TIA has been enhancing the business environment for broadband, mobile wireless, information technology, networks, cable, satellite and unified communications.

Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, TIA (News - Alert) promotes its members' products and services that empower communications in every industry and market, including healthcare, education, security, public safety, transportation, government, the military, the environment and entertainment. Dr. Jeff Smith (News - Alert), CTO of Numerex Corp and the chairman of TIA TR-50 Engineering Committee for Smart Device Communications, was invited to speak in the forthcoming months at several key M2M Standards events.TIA TR-50 and similar Standards Developing Organizations around the world are working to provide the necessary foundation for M2M end-to-end functionality and interoperability.

Numerex Corp. is industry’s one of the largest single source machine-to-machine product and service provider. It caters to some of the world's largest organizations delivering the foundational components of device, network, and application, used by its customers in the development of their M2M solutions.

“We are fortunate to be able to rely on Numerex (News - Alert) and other such premier companies with a thorough knowledge of the industry to lead our Smart Device Communications-related standardization activities. M2M is a critical area of focus at TIA. As a matter of fact, Smart Device and M2M Network will be one of our summit tracks during our annual event, TIA 2011: Inside the Network, on May 18-20, 2011 in Dallas,” Grant Seiffert (News - Alert), President of TIA, said.

Dr. Smith, as part of the TIA delegation and Chair of TR-50, will give a presentation on TR-50's activities during the M2M session of the 15th meeting of Global Standards Collaboration (GSC-15), hosted by the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA), which will take place in Beijing, China on August 30th – September 2nd. 

It should be mentioned here that at GSC, which meets approximately every year, the world's leading telecommunications and radio standards organizations meet to promote innovation and collaboration on a broad spectrum of standards topics. M2M has been identified as a "High Interest Subject" for 2010. Some hundred participants from Participating Standards Organizations (PSO) and ITU (International Telecommunications Union) attend, along with observers from additional groups.

“The adoption of standards will open up new opportunities and accelerate the growth of the M2M industry. Standards enable scale and make application development easier, faster and more cost-effective. As a result, Numerex supports the M2M standardization efforts around the world. TIA, with its long history in telecommunications standardization and policy advocacy, is the ideal venue for Numerex to play an active role in this undertaking,” Stratton Nicolaides, Numerex's chairman and CEO commented.