Following a great M2M Evolution event at ITEXPO (News - Alert) East 2012 in Miami, Fla., last week, it is no big surprise that the embedded M2M solutions space was buzzing with news this week following the communications conference.

Kicking off this week, TMCnet shed some light on one of the most popular sessions at M2M Evolution last week, “Remote Patient Care: No Longer Out of Sight or Out of Mind.” The standing room only session explored how M2M technology can help bring peace of mind to those caretakers who are responsible for individuals with Alzheimer’s.

As shared in the session, one of the scariest things about the disease is that at any moment a person might wander away and never return. In fact, if you look at overall statistics, half of those people with Alzheimer’s will wander and of those that don’t come back in 24 hours up to half will suffer serious injury or death.

“They are going to have to rely on us to be their caregiver, to have somebody go in and watch them every day, and for most families this is not feasible,” Steve Hudson, chief development officer at Omnilink, said to a packed room.

Fortunately for those out there dealing with dementia, Omnilink offers advanced location tracking devices and software – one of the most effective ways to help protect people that are prone to wander. Thanks to these technologies, caregivers can help ensure that persons with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia remain in designated “safe zones” or are easily located if they do wander from these areas.

For more on the panel discussion, click here.

Also this week, embedded M2M solutions enabler Sprint forged a relationship with Orange Business Services, the enterprise arm of France Telecom (News - Alert)-Orange and global integrator of communications solutions for multinational corporations, to expand Sprint’s M2M reach globally to 180 countries.

Thanks to the new partnership, Orange Business Services will deliver global M2M connectivity service to Sprint (News - Alert) through its International M2M Center (IMC) based in Brussels. The services offered include consulting, design, innovation, integration, project management and service management. Sprint will also benefit from the expertise of 200 plus skilled professionals and the knowledge of the growing M2M ecosystem of   Orange Business Services.

Commenting on this partnership, Yijing Brentano, vice president of international wholesale, Sprint, said, "We look forward to working with Orange (News - Alert) Business Services as a vital partner as we equip U.S. business customers with a strong global M2M capability and help them reduce complexity by working with a single support team.”

In other news, Telit Wireless (News - Alert) Solutions, a provider of wireless modules to different industries, spread the word that it now enables connectivity for remote monitoring applications from Alta Industrial Automation (AIA). Currenlty, Telit offers its G24 and H24 modules to support AIA’s Pioneer and GoFer product lines and enable real-time monitoring for a wide range of applications including commercial farming, gas lines, irrigation systems, chemical tanks and automotive fleets.  

The ultra-compact G24 modules provide 2G quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity while H24 module line offers high-speed HSUPA/HSDPA connections that leverage on worldwide 3.5G deployments, according to company officials. H24 also offers backward compatibility by supporting quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE.

Check back here next week for more embedded M2M solutions news!